I feel your pain about not remembering names, but having to look at a cellular phone to find someone's name, let alone his/her details, is a sad situation. It might be all we have now, but it highlights how what we have is pathetic.
We need augmented reality glasses. When I meet someone at a conference, I'll look at the person's face and snap a photo by moving an eye to the "take photo" icon. Perhaps I could even employ a technique based on subvocalization.
My phone, connected to the glasses via wireless, will be searched via image recognition software. If there's a hit, information about the person is displayed on the glasses.
Or, even more efficiently, the camera on my glasses will snap an image of the conference badge and use that information.
If the photo or badge data aren't in my phone's database, cloud-based searching will commence, perhaps including a specialized business image recognition database. After the person is identified, my glasses will display details, based on my previous settings or by blinking on the appropriate icon(s) for showing basic details (name, company title, etc.) or more complete details (business bio, personal Web site, recent social networking posts, news headlines and summaries, etc.).
This isn't quite possible today via augmented reality, but it will be in several years. After all, a Web search today could turn up all this information.
It's just one scenario where augmented reality glasses will be enormously useful for business. We'll look back at having to stare at cellular phones like having to use the telegraph.
On first read, this does sound like a handy application. Like everyone else it seems, I have a tough time remembering names and appreciate anything that can help. That's one reason social media is such a blessing at times!
I'm also the type of person who will be talking to someone, and they'll tell me their name, and five minutes later I'll have forgotten it. Evernote sounds somewhere along the lines of what I would want. Maybe there should be a new protocol among people having conversations that along with verbal introductions, if they have those Samsung type phones with Near Field Readers, they should tap them together and transfer photos and Facebook contact data, rather than just using memory and paper business cards.
Mitch, Evernote Hello sounds terrific for organizing and remembering faces and names of people. This is great for improving relationships with acquaintances and for continued business networking. I'm wondering, though, if the app can lead to too much information about a person upon meeting them and the deeper consequences of that.
For example, If you connect immediately using Evernote Hello, then the app brings in Facebook information, you're finding out personal information a moment later. When this happens in the first few minutes of meeting someone, it contributes to that all important first impression of them. The image of them in business attire and professional stature is instantly replaced by the photo of them in Hawaii doing a drunken hula at 2:00 am! In most cases -- TMI!
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