Augmented Reality for Wifi Hotspots

If you're a road warrior or just someone who's out of the office occasionally, there are times when you need to connect your laptop to the Internet.

Locating a Wi-Fi connection can be a challenge because it's difficult to find places that offer Wi-Fi and get information about what those places are like such as whether they serve good coffee and food, and whether there are enough places to sit.

Fortunately, there are a growing number of tools and services that are making it easier - and more interesting - to find places offering Wi-Fi.

One of the most intriguing is Worksnug, which is creating technology that uses augmented reality to "find the nearest and best places to work".

Although Worksnug has yet to launch, a video on its Web site shows how you can use an iPhone app and the iPhone's camera to scan a particular location. As you scan, information about places with Wi-Fi appears on the screen. If the service works as well as Worksnug suggests, it would be truly innovative and cool.

Worksnug is slated to launch in London and San Francisco before expanding to other places around the world. Unfortunately, Toronto isn't on Worksnug's priority list but you never know what a little lobbying might do!

To see a demo of Worksnug, check out this video.