links for 2009-09-25

• Technology Review: What's Augmented Reality's Killer App?
  'Augmented reality (AR), which involves superimposing virtual objects and information on top of the real world, may be coming to a phone near you. As mobile phones become packed with more sensors, better video capabilities, and faster processing power, many experts predict that AR will become increasingly common. But in a panel discussion today at EmTech@MIT in Cambridge, MA, panelists will admit that several obstacles still remain and that the "killer app" for augmented reality has yet to emerge.'
  (tags: virtual+reality augmented+reality hci)
• AIDS vaccines: Double, not quits | The Economist
  'SOME good news about AIDS. After more than two decades of research those labouring to find a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes the disease, have found a method that might actually work.'
  (tags: biomedical+research)
• Kristin Tolle on biomedical initiatives at Microsoft Research | Jon Udell | Channel 10
  This is some 411 on Fone+ and the MS Research initiative looking at using the cell phone as a biomedical tool, especially in developing nations. Lots of research implications.
  (tags: biomedical+informatics ubicomp pervasive+computing)
• CancerGrid: Publications : Oxford University Computing Laboratory
  Interesting tangent on caBIG from Oxford, funded by Microsoft Research
  (tags: caBIG caDSR semantic+web biomedical+informatics)