This YouTube video blew me away. It seems to embody all the things we've been saying might happen on campuses some day with mobile technology. That ACU was already doing it all with the iPhone surprised and excited me.
I was especially surprised at seeing some of the iPhone features which I didn't think existed yet, like voice recording and video in portrait mode (I thought they must have filmed sideways to get that!). And I wondered what software they were using to do some of the things and how they managed to get it on the iPhone given that the SDK isn't being released until next week.
Then I found a link on iTunesU to better quality versions of the same movie and noticed the description saying this movie was created "to highlight our vision of how the iPhone could be used in a university setting." So it appears they're not really doing these things yet. OK, now I don't feel so much like the world suddenly took a big leap in mobile technology while I wasn't looking!
ACU is, however, giving each incoming student this fall an iPhone or iPod Touch. And I do believe that many of the things they show in the video are already possible and many others soon will be. So this is certainly a trend to watch.
The vision displayed in this video is, to me, the very definition of techNOcool.