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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GLOBAL – We had a tremendous response to our call for what you’d like to see in the N900, and what you’d like to see the N900 do. We filtered through the latter and have a list of 82 separate functions you’d like to see performed on an N900! However, one comment jumped out this week which broached the subject of introducing another technology in the N900 – Near Field Communications (NFC). There’s been plenty of research and testing going on around NFC, and I’m afraid we’ve no idea about any plans to introduce it in the N900, but ARJWright’s comment is a solid one, which is why he’s picked up this week’s Comment of the week gong along with the second last license we have for Gravity (don’t worry, we have something else lined up for the week after next!)
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NRC staff from Bangalore show off Healthradar
GLOBAL – Tracking disease in remote parts of the world is a major factor in managing and understanding the spread of infection. Nokia HealthRadar is designed to speed up the tracking of disease using mobile devices. Like Data Gathering, which helps people on the ground monitor the spread of infection using mobile devices, HealthRadar goes a step further by enabling near real time access to the information.
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GLOBAL – The folks at Nokia Research Centre have come up with a new source of power for mobile devices – ambient radio waves. Using the electromagnetic radiation emitted from WiFi transmitters, mobile phone antennas, TV masts and the like, the team are already harvesting 3-5 milliwatts using current prototypes test circuits. [UPDATE 11jun09: Sorry folks, these are research test set-ups not product protos. Changed the word so as not to perpetuate the confusion in the original article. - CS]. The target is to hit 50 milliwatts, which would be enough to (eventually) re-juice a phone that is switched off.
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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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HOLLYWOOD, USA – Nokia Research Center has been exploring and developing the concept of Augmented Reality (AR) for over a year now, with much of the initial groundwork done at NRC Palo Alto (watch an early video demo here). In November 2008, Nokia opened a new NRC lab in Hollywood – Augmented Reality is one of the key areas of research at the California based center. Accelerating the development of Augmented Reality, today Nokia announced that the University of Southern California (USC) is collaborating with NRC Hollywood, with the first project being the advancement of this exciting realm of research.
Read on for more on the development of Augmented Reality and what you can expect to see to see come out of this fresh collaboration between NRC Hollywood and the academic experts at USC.
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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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GLOBAL – The Nokia Locate Sensor concept from NRC is one of those topics that continues to resonate with many of you, and is certainly a subject that has gripped the team here on Conversations. If you’re coming to this fresh, let me bring you up to speed. Last month we asked you for your suggestions on possible alternative uses for the Nokia Locate Sensor – the idea being purely for us all to dredge our grey matter for some smart ideas that we’ll then attempt to run past the NRC team responsible for Nokia Locate Sensor, simply to get some feedback from the people behind this pioneering research project.
Having gathered together a heap of interesting ideas from Conversations readers in mid-February, towards the tail-end of the month we ran a poll to herd your collective opinions on the top three ideas that we should present the NRC team with. The results have been counted, so click through to find out which ideas we’ll be running past the Nokia Locate Sensor team and hoping to get feedback on.
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