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With a Cellphone as My Guide
- July 07, 2006Think of it as a divining rod for the information age.
If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today you can point a specialized cellphone at a hotel, a restaurant or a historical monument, and with the press of a button the phone will display information from the Internet describing the object you are looking at.
The new service is made possible by the efforts of three Japanese companies and GeoVector, a small American technology firm, and it represents a missing link between cyberspace and the physical world.
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Google Tools Workshop - Bozeman (August 24, 2011)
If you are interested in learning more about the Google Tools and how they are being used in the classroom, this is the workshop for you. Click on the link below to find out more or to register for the class.
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