Real fake: Augmented Reality—let that phrase sink in, because you’ll be hearing it a lot soon. Basically, it means taking video of something that’s actually there (e.g. your image on a Web cam), adding something that isn’t (e.g. a little wind-power station) and letting you interact with it on-screen as if it really was (e.g. blow on it to make it turn). General Electric put together a fun little demo—print out an image, hold it up to your Web cam, and it technomagically comes to life. Augment your reality right now at bit.ly/GE.
Tweet Tweet: Depending on who you ask, Twitter is either the biggest tectonic shift in how people use the Internet since I-don’t-know-what, or it’s an annoying-cute-ego-feeding fad that presents too little information to be useful, too often to not get ignored. Either way, more people are doing it, including quasi-celebs like John Hodgman and Shaq, the two hippest guys around. Cracked.com has a run-down of the celebrity twitterers most worth following at bit.ly/celebs.
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