Annotated reality
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a smart video goggle system that records everything the wearer looks at, recognizes and assigns names to objects that appear in the video, and creates an easily searchable database of the recorded footage
Found via Slashdot, where some of the comments relating this to past cyberpunk novels are amusing.
Of course, it isn’t all funny; this would seem to bring universal, mobile, surveillance a step closer.
