Recently we looked at the latest innovations from Toshiba who were taking the mobile touch screen phone experience to the next level. This week we look to researchers from Dartmouth University who are hoping to take things to another level or at least in a different direction. Dubbed the ‘eyephone’ they have managed to create [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Mobile’
June 7, 2010
Now you can cash in on your check in
People are already checking in and broadcasting their lives through the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare. Many of these check ins are at business locations such as restaurants and shops. Currently the vast majority of this activity goes unrewarded, with the most users can hope to gain is a foursquare badge or recently perhaps [...]
June 7, 2010
Toshiba take the touch screen to the next level
Since the arrival of the iPhone the touchscreen phone has gone from strength to strength. However, many people still don’t like the idea of pressing buttons that they can’t actually feel. The latest technology from Toshiba not only hopes to satisfy peoples’ desire to feel buttons, but hopes to take touch screen experiences to a [...]
April 26, 2010
McDonalds: Interacting with billboards via mobile
Gone are the days that billboard adverts offered a one way channel of communication with an audience. Digital technology means billboards can accommodate user interaction. A great example comes from McDonalds in which they combined the latest technology with the facts that most people have a phone with a camera on them at all times, [...]
February 16, 2010
Samsung Projector Phone: Do we really need projectors on our mobiles?
Here’s the latest in mobile phone technology, the Samsung projector phone. It’s impressive enough that they have made a projector so small, but they’ve also managed to get a fully functional phone in there as well. It certainly gives you something that you won’t find on your current iPhone or Blackberry, but although impressive do [...]
January 28, 2010
Hyundai mobile phones: Big in China and coming to the UK
In the UK Hyundai is not a name that is readily associated with mobile phones. However, the brand known for it’s budget cars in the UK is a major mobile phone manufacturer in the East. I saw this ad in China of a particularity interesting looking Hyundai mobile. Further investigation led me to find that [...]
