Henri Tirri, left, with Jimmy Wales
HELSINKI, Finland – Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is the 2009 recipient of the Nokia Foundation award. Wales, the man behind the community-driven encyclopedia that has become the web’s de facto reference site, was honoured for his contributions to the evolution of the World Wide Web as a participatory and truly democratic platform. In presenting the €10,000 award at the Nokia Foundation scholarship awards ceremony today, Henry Tirri, head of Nokia Research Centre and Nokia Foundation chairman, said the award was both deserved and timely.
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Berkeley, USA – There’s no disguising the fact that we’re shameless fans of what the teams over at the Nokia Research Center do, applaud NRC’s open innovation approach, and hurl praise at its many collaborators and radical thinkers. From recent developments such as Nokia Locate Sensor and indoor positioning trials to battery bending and face sketching, this is one of the most exciting divisions within Nokia, so it’s great to see another collaboration and new laboratory pop up recently in Berkley, California in the USA.
The new Nokia Research Center in Berkley is tasked with some fascinating projects coupled with important ambitions that could help alter (for the better) what our devices are capable of achieving in the future. One of the core areas of research is the alchemy of squeezing better performance from mobile products using less power consumption. Read on to find out more about this and the other fields of research that will be explored at Nokia’s latest research facility.
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UPDATE: We’ve just got hold of the video showcasing the latest phase of the indoor positioning trial at the Kamppi shopping center in Helsinki, Finland. Click through to watch Christian Del Rosso from the Nokia Research Center walk you through what’s going on.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Indoor positioning, and the contextual services that can be strapped to it, is something that has gripped our attention since word of this innovative development broke outside the walls of the Nokia Research Center back in April 2008 (read our very first story to mention indoor positioning). Since then the buzz around indoor positioning has increased (aided by the excitement around technologies such as the Nokia Locate Sensor), and has recently galvanized through live real-world trials – the latest being the second phase of a trial that’s currently taking place at the Kamppi Shopping Center in Helsinki, Finland.
Read on to find out more about what’s going on with Nokia’s indoor positioning research and development after the break.
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GLOBAL – This month the Nokia Research Center (NRC) released its first newsletter, entitled Open Threads.
Tucked away on the NRC site, you might’ve missed it (it nearly ducked our radar), but thankfully it didn’t dodge our keen eye for must-read Nokia tales, as it gives a great insight into some of the smart stories of Open Innovation at NRC and the developments and people involved in fascinating projects going on behind the scenes in Nokia’s research division. Topics such as professors striving to bend batteries, the evolution of a slick new Chinese messaging tool dubbed Stroke++, a concept called face sketching and loads more.
Read on for more on these highlights and click through download the entire Open Threads newsletter from NRC – it’s definitely worth a read.
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GLOBAL – Ever since the Nokia Locate Sensor concept was unveiled by NRC back at CES in January, we’ve been engrossed with this innovative lost-and-found tagging solution. Back in February we asked you for your suggestions on possible alternative uses for the Nokia Locate Sensor – the idea being solely to get us all sparking off each other for interesting ideas that we’d then hope to get comments on from the NRC team responsible for Nokia Locate Sensor. Last month we ran a poll to find out your favourite three ideas from the sea of suggestions offered by many of you.
This week we managed to locate Kimmo Kalliola, Research Leader in Wireless Systems & Services at NRC (and one of the key people in the Nokia Locate Sensor team), and get his comments on your top three ideas for alternative uses for Nokia Locate Sensor. Read on to find out what he had to say about the ideas you voted for.
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BARCELONA, Spain – We’ve written about Nokia Research Center’s Image Space project before. It’s a photo sharing service that creates a navigable, immersive interface to images, maps, and video. Using data from a phone’s GPS, compass, and tilt-sensor, the service builds a 3D representation of the images.
What’s new is not only the ability to hear sounds and see videos, but a new 3D Point Cloud View that aggregates photos from a single object into a very cool three-dimensional model of all the images. Well, you have to see it to get it, so I’ve made a video (below) of Severi Uusitalo demonstrating this and all the other cool stuff in Nokia Image Space.
More after the jump.
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LAS VEGAS, USA – Wow, what a response the Nokia Locate Sensor has received since news broke of its appearance as CES 2009 late last week. It’s so encouraging to see such positive widespread online reactions and comments to this innovative prototype that has been developed by the Nokia Research Center, with most commenters hoping for Locate Sensor to become an official product.
Click through to read a brief round-up of reaction from across the web to Nokia’s never-lose-it gadget.
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SAN FRANCISCO, USA - We wrote about a trial going on in the US back in September where mobile phones will be used to monitor traffic and help improve journey planning. Well now the project has kicked off on its next phase, with researchers from Berkeley and Nokia releasing free software later tonight.
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ESPOO, Finland – When the N95 was originally announced back in day (seems like a lifetime ago, it was actually only two years ago) the team were showing off some of the cool location-based functionality we’d be seeing from GPS. One thing that stood out for me was the ability to see friends nearby, and that they’d show up as little dots on your map.
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