Hint for people at airports: Use that cell phone boarding pass

Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing was at Newark Airport on Monday May 27, and found that the TSA screeners wouldn't give the extra "Dreaded 4S security screening" if you put your boarding pass on your cell phone

How cool is that!

Finally, Augmented Reality from someone who knows what they're doing...

Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez sold about a zillion copies, and he describes what Augmented Reality should be.  The glasses should be stylish, continuously network-connected, and have enough understanding of the environment to allow synthetic artifacts, identity recognition ( including floating labels) and full 2 way voice and video communication.

Pretty sure Meta is the first product (well, kickstarter ) to understand this.

It's different than Oculus Rift in that Meta has clear lenses to add to the real environment (AR) vs Oculus Rift which is Virtual Reality (VR).

Let's see what happens.

Umm, wait what!? Your Apple phone, and Android, not safe.

From Cory at Boing Boing:

Apple can decrypt iPhones for cops; Google can remotely "reset password" for Android devices

 If you have something to hide, make sure it's not in your phone, or have a quick wipe app handy.  The good news is that there's quite a backlog, so you have to be important, but that can't last.