{"id":17990,"date":"2013-02-10T08:46:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2013-02-10T08:46:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T16:46:34","slug":"augmented-reality-app-translates-newspapers-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/augmented-reality-app-translates-newspapers-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Augmented-reality app translates newspapers for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Color me deeply skeptical, but intrigued: The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-21366825\">reports<\/a> on an app that modifies the paper version of The Tokyo Shimbun in ways kids might appreciate:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ouW5W_tMbg\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What it&#8217;s really about is something that&#8217;s been talked about for a long time, about content being presented in different ways depending on who the user is,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means two versions of the content &#8211; a grown-up one and the kids one. That has enormous potential. It also tackles a big gap in young readership.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes me oddly wistful: I&#8217;m Proust-ing out, almost smelling the newsprint &#038; listening to the &#8220;funny papers&#8221; rattle as my dad read me cartoons, or as he&#8217;d read news &#038; obits with a drink after work. The real obit, of course, is for the paper newspaper: I&#8217;m afraid all this will show up as a quaintly hilarious discovery that flits by on some future adult&#8217;s in-optic-nerve newsfeed. But whatever; I&#8217;m suddenly, and surprisingly, all choked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color me deeply skeptical, but intrigued: The BBC reports on an app that modifies the paper version of The Tokyo Shimbun in ways kids might appreciate: &#8220;What it&#8217;s really about is something that&#8217;s been talked about for a long time, about content being presented in different ways depending on who the user is,&#8221; he said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}