Emotional convergence radio – smell, light, sound, …

Nowadays, products that blend a number of sensibilities (smell, vision, auditory, etc.) is increasing. This intenet radio, dubbed as USB aroma radio, can play music with surrounding aroma and cozy light.
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If you’re like us, you’re sure to have fond memories of gathering around the radio in your jammies on Saturday morning and listening to the likes of [...]

3D Interactive Ads uisng cameraphone

Can our cameraphone can be a 3D remote contoroller? Here is an interesting experiment from UK to leverage Bluetooth funtion of mobile phone as control unit of large display. This technology can be applied to interactive advertisement scenario so that the owners of mobile phone interact with billboard using their gadget.
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Kissphone – Transfer the loving emotion

 Currently the phone transmit the non-emotional information such as voice, text, multimedia data between the called and the callee. In the future, it is likely that the devices like mobile phones can be the mediator of the emotion. Here is the example that shows the concept of the emotion transmitter. Kissphone, which is conceptual product [...]

Storytelling Pen – Aigopen

Between the reading and the listening, which is convenient for you?
Considering the audio book which is increasingly penetrating the market of the paper book, it is highly possible that speech interfaces will replace the visual interfaces in some applications.
Aigopen, which was exhibited in CES 2008, is brand-new gadget for audio reading. By putting the gadget into the [...]

The top 10 wireless trends for 2008

If someone ask me to summarize the eccential words for wireless market, I want to pick up such words as openness, new business models and more human-friendly interactions.
Firstly for openess, as some mobile operators take more open strategies and government policymakers enforce the openness of it, mobile network is becoming more open to another players such as Google. And [...]

The Technology Bed – the Starry Night™

In the future, technologies for our comfortable life will be more important. Here is somewhat luxury product for our more pieceful and healthy sleeping, known as the Starry Night. The device has those kinds of functions to enhance our comfort in sleeping.

Anti-snore technology - The bed recognize the vibration and snoring sound of the user and help the use [...]

Portable DJ – Pacemaker

 Here is the first professional hand-held mixing device for DJ. Using the device, you can mixup serveral musics and thus create the new one. Since the UCC (User Created Content) and Web2.0 trends have already penetrated our society, the concept of the device – self-expression or self-creation – will be lucrative in the future.
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Private Broadcast – Next2Friends

With Next2Friends service, using the mobile phone having camera, you can broadcast your experience anywhere in the realtime. So to speak, Next2Friends is multimedia communication platform in the mobile environment. Here are some descriptions from Next2Freinds web site.
Next2Friends is a Communications Platform that opens up a whole new world of interaction between people, their friends and [...]

Year in Hardware – 2007 (from MIT Technology Review)

Excerpted from MIT Technology Review.
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Touch Screens
At Apple’s annual Macworld event last January, showman and CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. Holding it onstage, Jobs tapped on its surface to type, flicked his finger to scroll through songs, and pinched his fingers to make pictures smaller. The crowd went wild. But while the iPhone is [...]

Marketing with mobile camera phone – SnapTell

 Using image recognition technology, SnapTell provides interactive mobile advertisement solution. As soon as the user takes the pictures of the brand – such as movie poster, billboard, branded beverage, etc. - using the mobile phone, SnapTell application recognizes the picture and immediately sends the information or gifts related to the brand that is took picture of.
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