(Photo: Fredrik Solstad, located at VG.no)History meets life
Moving all around - a mix of tour guide, cultural exchange and testingground for all in one solutions:
"The nearly two-hour tour, dubbed History Unwired, features five recordings by local residents - ranging from a glassblower to a ska musician - along with flash animations, maps, and movie clips, all uploaded onto a PDA."
Made by "the University of Architecture in Venice and MIT's SENSEable Cities Lab", using a 3g umts pda with the carrier 3 and Motorola as partners - and a reputed filesize of 50mb. Which might be easy to deliver with 3g, but it does requiere a bit more storage than the average pda has available.
A lot of this kind of solutions being tested - among other places in the Nidarosdomen church in Trondheim
The issue is how to easily link the gps information with tagged content - like the way it is done for certain gmap applications, such as LandMarker and GPS Visualizer.
Adam Curry was talking a bit about the need for time and location syncing for podcasts - mixing in a wide set of sources to make info-tainment even better. Now if there only was as many pdas with gps as mobile phones... let's give it another 12-18 months at least, then maybe there will be a nice common way to get started - and the podcasts meet with the flicker images tagged and a video snippet or five. Looking good?
(another site is on the Nile Delta Pyramids, and a flickr mashup can find Oslo)
And if you belive everything you see - explain this 'illusion'
