When I was at school at the University of Florida, I was big into both mechanical engineering and computing. In my senior year,  I worked on a hand control for robotics that gave force feedback.  When the robot arm was lifting 500 lbs, it would feel like five lbs to me. When it lifted 1000, it would feel like 10. You could also make it work the other way. Consider a tiny robotic arm for surgery. Bump up against some delicate tissue and it would feel like a pound to the doctor.

In some ways, this was a simple example of “Augmented Reality” so when I read Robert Rice’s blog today I was glad to see some enthusiasm for the future.  Some technologies have longer paths and this has historically been one of them.  Check out his post on “Is it too early for augmented reality”

Being kind of a virtual world guy, one of the videos I like is this combination of  Second Life and the real world done bye Georgia Tech:

I also liked this new Coke commercial I found from Robert’s blog: