July 06, 2004
Cyborg Secret Messages
Imagine a world where with your cyborganic rose colored glasses, you can see messages that luddites can't.
Fujitsu Labs has developed some cool tech to embed 'invisible' data on your printed images. They see it as a technology to provide urls in documents so you can visit websites by photographing the document with your cellphone. That seems a bit odd though since there's no way to tell if a document has secret info in it or not.
For cyborgs with mediated reality, this could be a way to leave physical steganography in things like fliers and possibly stickers. With the ability to hide 12 characters in 1cm x 1cm, I bet the department of homeland security is going to have a panic attack.
Posted by nym at July 6, 2004 10:17 AM | TrackBack