With the world at your fingertips, augmented reality is just another trigger of heightened senses – a feeling you can never have too much of. When fragmented moments and hyperreal images meld into one exhilarating experience, taking your breath away, don’t you just love your gadgets and wish you had more of them?
Today, one look at the average gizmo-lover’s room is enough to make us realise that we have come a long way from staring enraptured at grainy black-and-white televisions that were once our window to the world. Entertainment has become personal, and we now put our souls into palm-sized devices that can transport us to a virtual dimension with the simple push of a button. ‘Idiot boxes’ have become intelligent, obediently changing channels to the wave of a hand, and motion sensors have relegated remote controls to the background.