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Isn't this a bit useless...

... if you don't live alone? If you've got a dog/wife/husband/flatmate/burglar you'll suddenly find that everything is badly out of sync.

How would i know if something had been moved or if it was just underneath a sheet of paper on a desk (as is my most common cause of object loss)?

Would it work if the object was rotated/inverted?

Could it tell the difference between an open/closed/part open laptop?

Couldn't they have used those camera-equipped glasses and a HUD? Or made it work with a cameraphone?

And isn't this not actually that huge a step forwards from the Gizmondo and a hundred other Augmented Reality projects?

Also, as someone who routinely walks about with a camera/HMD/belt-mounted first-attempt-at-a-wearable-PC strapped to them, I'd still have to say that it looks rather nerdy and crap. Build it into a hat, at least!

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