Buckingham Palace Download

Buckingham Palace is the Queens official London residence and is used to receive and entertain guests on state, ceremonial and official occasions for the Royal Family. There is a short and concise film which gives you a one-minute summary and can be played back on a mobile phone. The youtube version is here. If you have an Ipod, iPad or iPhone then why not take the podcast.

BBCs Fast Track Looks at Travel & Social Media

There are a number of interesting interviews and links in this short film from the BBC.

Augmented Reality

Several types of technology are appearing which can deliver information about our location and the places of interest which are around us. One method is that buildings contain bar-codes which can be scanned by software on a mobile phone, this in turn triggers a media delivery via blue-tooth, enabling us to receive information about the building. Another technology direction is to take advantage of the phones still camera to send an image of the building which can be identified by its shape and then rely relevant information.

Layar is a system which combines the power of a telephone, compass, GPS and camera. It is known as augmented reality and as your phones camera views the buildings in the locality information about them can be overlayed on the screen. On Remissio there is a more detailed description of a number of these technologies already being utilised in some European towns.