Amy Webb of @webbmedia took the Journalism Interactive conference on a tour of emerging tech trends for academia. She started off by talking about gestural technology, showing as an example a Wacom product that allows you to draw on paper and upload the image digitally. Webb also mentioned Livescribe which plays back audio from notes of an interview. It also has OCR so can convert notes into digital text. She showed

Image via Wikipedia Amy Webb races through 10 tech trends at the ONA annual conference. Fortunately, she also has posted the list online. First up are 2D, or QR, barcodes and how mobile phones can be used to scan these. The codes are already used in promotional ads but also in magazine ads.  Webb talks about how a news outlet could use these point readers to resources online.  The easy