It’s hard enough to tell when someone is lying to your face in a language you grew up with, but it’s all that much harder when the suspect in question is lying in a foreign language. And, when you’re talking about lies that could get US troops killed in Afghan and Iraqi battlefields, those lies…
German supermarket pushes cellphone shopping
Leave it to the Germans to push the fore-front of innovation in the supermarket. Apparently not satisfied with pushing innovative technologies and design in the automotive field, Germans at the country’s “Future Store” supermarket have come up with an interesting way to shop for your groceries. With a few clicks of your mobile phone’s camera,…
TI further shrinks pico projector only to cram it into a BlackBerry Curve; Well, kinda
CrunchGear’s Peter Ha got his lucky hands on the latest Texas Instruments Pico projector and from what he can tell they made quite a few improvements, at least in terms of size. As a matter of fact, they managed to cram the LED lit projector into a BlackBerry Curve! Before you go too crazy, you…
NEC looking to bring “Bubble Talk” voice SMS messages to carriers
There’s no denying that SMS text messaging has been a tremendous success. With hundreds of millions of SMS users worldwide, it makes sense that NEC is looking to cash in on what it hopes will be the next-generation of the short messaging service. NEC demonstrated their “Bubble Talk” technology at NXTcomm in Las Vegas and…
Pedal your way to full charge – O2’s pedal battery charger
This one goes out to all you cyclists out there. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could harness all that energy you’re putting in to pedaling yourself from point A to point B? While this new pedal-power harnessing technology won’t help you do more than yap on your handset just a bit longer, putting your…
Bluepod Media Solution is out there, sending stuff…
Picking up on my previous post about Bluetooth marketing for Pot Noodle, I wanted to just quickly cover off the company that are involved in that promotion. If you’ve been to a Vue Cinema in the UK, and have Bluetooth turned on, chances are you have been sent something by these guys! Bluepod Media have…
Pot Noodle Moobile!
Unilever has created a .mobi site for its cheekily-advertised Pot Noodle snacks! AKQA Mobile (the Mobile Marketing Agency, who I’ve been a lot about recently) have created the site, which provides some branded entertainment for visitors – such as ringtones and competitions. The site is partnered with the The Sun newspaper, and Bluepod Bluetooth outposts…
Skype passes ultimate mobility test
… or at least that’s what they were saying to me when they sent me an email on Tuesday. Reading on, the story was about the Skype Nomad, a girl called Rebecca from Oz, who has been travelling around (the world), and finding out how easy it is to use Skype. So really the mobility…
Shoes that detect WiFi?
“A Step in the Right Direction” is apparently the name of a new prototype shoe that could detect WiFi hot-spots where the users are walking. The shoes have a full tower PC in the platform heel integrated electronics, including a pressure sensor in the sole to start scans, LED indicators in the top, and presumably…
Skin-tenna – antenna uses your skin to trasmit signals, increases battery life
While most wireless devices these days are designed to broadcast RF signals that are strong enough to perpetuate through open air as well as penetrate through solid objects (like walls or human bodies), there’s a group of researchers that are looking to send wireless signals around an object, rather than through it. NewScientistTech reports that…