GLOBAL – It’s been a milestone year in Nokia’s evolution with CEO and President, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, announcing a fresh direction for Nokia that has already seen it beginning to move from being a handset company to an Internet services company.
HELSINKI, Finland – Yesterday, we came across Jeppe, a mobile mini home video conferencing prototype robot. The latest concept to emerge from the minds working inside the Nokia Research Center’s Smart Spaces laboratory, since posting our story the team has uploaded a video of the little critter in action. Watch it here…
HELSINKi, Finland – This morning I came across an unusual new character in the Nokia corridors – a wheeled home video conferencing robot called Jeppe. It’s the latest creation to emerge from the Nokia Research Centre Smart Spaces lab, a place where the teams focus on researching innovative solutions to how devices and services talk to each other, and applications such as remotely managing our homes or tracking our general well-being using “smart environments”. In this instance, the Jeppe prototype is a new experiment that explores how we might accept a different breed of video communication in our homes that’s more compelling and breaks the mould of the traditional PC/webcam scenario.
GLOBAL – I’m pretty excited because this week we’re going to have a video conference. Now, that notion isn’t a new one. We use iChat AV all the time and it works brilliantly. What I’m excited about is Halo. It’s HP’s answer to the future of video conferencing. And, it’s Nokia’s answer to saving the planet, or at least a bit of it.
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