A few examples of how mobile technology has opened up new ways in which we can experience the world:
Amsterdam RealTime, collected over two months in 2002; click on "view map"
Kim Possible, a new attraction at Disney World that incorporates mobile technology.
Cell Stories, a daily story delivered to cell phones ... and only cell phones.
23rd and Union, a locative experience based on a particularly interesting street corner in Seattle.
Parallel Kingdom, a mobile location based massively multiplayer game that uses your GPS location to place you in a virtual world on top of the real world.
Also, mobile technology can subvert media and government monoliths:
This footage, shot with a mobile phone, of a young woman in Iran, Neda Salehi, protesting the questionable elections there in June of 2009:
Her death, but also this footage, turned her into a martyr around which the Iranians have rallied for dramatic changes in their government.
Technology on the way:
Look past the thin surface of this video promo piece for mixed reality, and what do you see?
And this sort of research is being done at the University of Washington, by Babak Parviz, with computer-enhanced contact lenses:
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