Augmented reality CVs – apply within?

Some seven months ago, my colleague Charles Arthur wrote : "Don't act too surprised if, some time in the next year, you meet someone who explains that their business card isn't just a card; it's an augmented reality business card." And lo, the day duly arrives. Friday 8 October 2010, to be precise. Holding up a business card to his laptop's webcam, Richard Nott, website director at IT recruitment website CWJobs , brought to life a virtual David Wood – the co-founder of Symbian, no less. "Hi, I'm David Wood, and this is my augmented reality CV," says the brogue Scot, moving from a farm in Aberdeenshire – where he grew up – to the compounds of Cambridge – where he was educated – in one breath. Smart, I thought. ( Though David stopped short of revealing the winning formula for Symbian . ) Remember Alec Brownstein's Google Adwords CV ? Consider this in the same vein. Nott predicts that AR CVs – as they'll inevitably become known – are an "addendum to CVs, rather than a replacement" and that they'll soon become available to everyone, after a period of high-exclusivity for ultra-techies. Wood's AR CV, if you're interested, took seven days to put together. This is how they did it: