Here’s a promo video of the Acrossair augmented reality browser. Using the iPhone 3GS camera, GPS, compass and Google Maps, this browser gives the user a sort of info HUD of the shopping and entertainment availabilities around them. By clicking on a category such as “restaurants”, the user can actually turn and see what eateries are around them in the surrounding area. You can also lay the iPhone flat to get a Google Maps view that also maintains the correct orientation no matter where you turn. Just watch the video, it’ll make a lot more sense:

The guys at lapin-bleu.net made a sexy little program called the textorizer that generates an image made made up of text. By inputting a sample image and adjusting certain settings such as font and number of strokes, the application outputs a PNG and a SVG (vector) of a texture of text resembling the image. There’s even a textorizer group on Flickr.

You won’t be able to correct your Freudian slips anymore while chatting, Engadget reports from I/O that Google’s prepping a soon to be in the labs chat product called “Wave” that updates live as you type. The ever-so-familiar “Insert screen name here is typing…” will be a thing of the past…well, unless you click on the draft option that disables the live streaming.

It seems like their gearing this toward online collaboration rather than regular everyday chatting with its real-time translation, document sharing with on-the-fly editing and “track changes”-like playback mode that lets you view the chat evolution and document edits dynamically.

Other than your standard browser, Wave will be made available for the Android and iPhone platforms.

Expect some good mashups once its released because it will be an open protocol.  Get a preview or get alerted when its ready here.