Future Tech: Business Cards by Photo

Future tech: A mobile device employing facial recognition to identify the occupants of a photograph and automatically retrieve information about them via the web.

Type: Mobile application.

Tagline: Shazam meets photos.

What's around today:

• Camera enabled smartphone - photos on the go and the internet readily accessible


• Facebook - the largest database of tagged photographs of individuals in the world


• Picasa - in version 3.5 Google implemented facial recognition.  It can identify people without concern of age, sunglasses, hats, hair, shadow, or direction they're facing, tag them, and sync them with your Google contacts.

Everyday scenario:

Take a photo of a new contact and their name, email, and phone number is saved to your phone/contacts along with the location and time you met.  Your face is your always available business card.

The future freaks me out scenario:

At a bar, feeling confident, looking to make your move .  Snap a photo, discreetly, from across the room.  Facebook profile retrieved.  Looks like she's got a German Shepard.  Conversation topic acquired.

What's preventing this today:

• Though facial recognition has taken tremendous strides it's not perfect and does a better job of identifying a smaller pool of faces, with 300 million users on Facebook and counting computing time would take days with lots of possible misidentifications


• Privacy issues abound

Estimated arrival: 5 years, 2014

Future Tech

I'm a curious individual.  The infinity of space, what it means to be human, the existence of name-your-deity, all things that I ponder.  Also, all things that I am in no why qualified to speculate on.

However, as a computer/tech nerd who feels pretty plugged into the scene, I feel I have a little bit more "cred" in that department.

I've always liked exploring shifts in how we do things, seeing one tiny idea balloon into a cultural phenomenon (i.e. Facebook) and anticipating the next one.  As of late I've enjoyed assembling the bits and pieces of today's technologies into a viable future product.

Since these postulations are a recurring things I decided to create this, the Future Tech category.

Future proofed

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Yet Another Blog Reboot

I've probably started a dozen blogs over the years, always with the best intentions, always promising "this time I will update weekly".  As is evident by this post, it has not gone so well, yet here I am again.

Truth is, I'm trying to make something of a name for myself as a software devloper in the world of the wide web and I need a landing page.  Here it is.

My previously abandon blogs have not been entirely without purpose.  For example, I've learned that I'm bad at blogging because it takes so much of my time.  I write a blog entry in the manner I write a college essay: thoroughly checked for grammar, read over multiple times, with a single tense and voice, ready to be turned in to the professor.  I'm making some sacrifices.

I will make grammar mistakes.  I will ramble.  I will lose focus.  I will err on the side of short.  I will suck at many things writing.

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