Aimed at travelers & locals curious to learn more about their city, Google’s Field Trip app (Android only for now) serves up content based on your specific location within that city. The app launches today in six cities.
The app, oddly for a Google product, presents a very nice visual design. There’s even a sleek made-for-tv commercial. What is Google up to with this app?
An insightful post on the New York Times Bit blog predicts that the app “reveals a lot about the big directions Google wants to go.”
Note the binocular/field glasses motif that also forms the icon for the Field Trip app.
Are those field glasses just ornamentation, clever use of graphics, or a hint towards Google’s future attempt to disrupt mobile computing with Google Glass & wearable computing?
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