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Bruce Sterling
Apr 25, 2010 11:50 AM

Augmented Reality: more goggle-based design-fiction

*This one's looking pretty good until the cornball Yahoo! flatscreen shows up. Yahoo! wouldn't put that on a mobile, so there's no reason they'd put it on your face.

http://thomaskcarpenter.com/2010/03/31/loading-screen-on-augmented-goggles/

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