Pretty soon we will be like Terminators and look at the world like a robot. Layar is providing augmented reality technology to mobile apps and has recently teamed up with video game company Ubisoft to launch the first ever mobile augmented AR game. To promote the very popular Splinter Cell game, Layar, Ubisoft, and agency Blutarsky teamed up to offer gamers a unique and highly engaging mobile experience.

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You are sent to Amsterdam (not to smoke or eat french fries with mayonaisse) as an agent to investigate the murders of several other agents that were your friends. Your primary suspect is Sam Fisher and there are several clues that lead you to his secret hideout. The Layar browser is in sync with the game and helps you complete the six missions. The game’s final destination is a video game shop selling the latest instalment of Splinter Cell and every successful agent gets  afree t-shirt as a reward. How cool is that?! Check out the video below to see it in action.

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• Alamo Drafthouse (my favorite movie theater chain in Austin) gives you two free movie tickets if you are the “mayor” of that location.
• Atomic Wings (in NYC) gives you 15 percent off if you are the mayor.
• Ben & Jerry’s (in Detroit) gives you a free small cone for every fifth check-in. Mayors get 10 percent off.
• The Doubletree Hotel Crystal City (Virginia) gives 20 percent off an entrée to all who check in. Mayors get 20 percent off their total bill.

• Nightingale Theater (Tulsa) gives a free bag of popcorn and a beer on your fifth check-in.
• Xoom (NYC) gives you a free smoothie when you buy one and check in with a friend.
• The Wynn Hotel (Las Vegas) gives you a free glass of champagne when you check in at the Blush nightclub.
• The Lite Choice (NYC) offers free upgrades to a larger size cup or cone just by checking in.

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Teens are becoming obsessed with BlackBerry. How do I know? I interviewed one.

Regular readers might recall me mentioning this before, but please allow me to re-hash a conversation I had a few years back with one of design team behind the Motorola Razr.

This was clearly a fearsomely talented (and very young) guy, so I asked him what the next big handset trend would be.

BlackBerry, he replied.

His reasoning was that all the kids in Hollywood have them – and what Tinseltown does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow.

I was dubious. Unlike Americans, Europeans don’t have a tradition of using qwerty keyboards (or didn’t in 2007), and we prefer texts to email.

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