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“…Robert, you should be wearing. You look silly walking around with that view-page clutched in your hand…”

Vernor Vinge showed us the furture possibilities in Rainbow’s End . Wired satirized a product of this future:

Today, the future is almost now.

Televisions ‘to be fitted in contact lenses within ten years’ – Telegraph

Last Updated: 9:11AM GMT 09 Feb 2009

…A “digital tattoo” fitted to the viewer would pick up on the feelings of characters on screen and create impulses causing them to feel the same way…

…Miriam Rayman, of the Future Laboratory consultancy, which compiled the report, said the basic technology needed for the developments already existed

She said: “The technology is getting smaller and smaller and people are trying to work out how to make it more immersible. They are trying to bring it closer and closer to the eye.”

And how about this:

TED 2009: The Sixth Sense is Actually a Minority Report-like Internet Interface

… By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted on a hat, WUW sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects you are interacting with. WUW projects information to any surface, walls, and the objects around us, and to interact with the information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or with the object itself. WUW is having the entire world as your computer. Projects Details — sixthsense | fluid interfaces

Dear Santa™, I need a little help this holiday season fending off a zombie hoarde…

Gears of War – Lancer Assault Rifle
Full Sized Replica

Actual Gears of War soldiers in combat: