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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TAMPERE, Finland – One of Nokia Research Centre’s open innovation initiatives, the Demola Facility picked up the Activator of the Year award from the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications. The award recognizes the work the facility does to enable open innovation in the region. Co-founded by Nokia Research Centre, the Demola Facility is also a major collaborator and during the first five months of its existence the Demola centre and the NRC worked on seven open innovation projects.
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GLOBAL – The brainchild of the Nokia Research Center, Nokia Locate Sensor continues to grip our collective attention and spark chatter on possible alternative uses for its innovative lost ‘n’ locate concept. With that in mind, two weeks ago I asked for your suggestions – ideas on how you think Nokia Locate Sensor could best be exploited and even improved.
The response was great, with many of you putting forward a heap of fascinating ideas for Nokia Locate Sensor. We’ve chosen six of our favourite suggestions, and want you to vote for which you think is best. Once we close the poll in a couple of weeks we’ll take the top three ideas to the NRC team working on Nokia Locate Sensor, and do our best to get a response from them with feedback and thoughts on your concepts, including whether they’re possible.
Click through to read more about each suggestion and to vote for your favourite alternative idea for Nokia Locate Sensor.
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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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BARCELONA, Spain – As the dust settles on Mobile World Congress, its time to take stock. So following on from our best in show poll we’ve pulled together our top 10 Nokia videos from the show. Later today we’ll be bringing you a full round-up, but in the meantime click through to see the most exciting handsets in action, as well as interviews with some of the key minds at Nokia driving these innovations.
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BARCELONA, Spain – The head of Nokia Research Center is a guy called Henry Tirri. He was in Barcelona this week spreading the message of what Nokia Research Center is doing and what the future will look like. We caught up with him and he kindly stepped in front of the lens for a video interview.
Click through to watch our video interview with Henry Tirri, and for all the highlights of our fascinating chat with one of the key people responsible driving innovation from the frontline within Nokia.
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UPDATE: We’ve taken our favourite six ideas from your great suggestions below, and are now running a poll to find out which concept you like the best. Click to visit the poll and get your vote counted.
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GLOBAL – With the buzz surrounding Nokia Locate Sensor still reverberating, it got me thinking that there must be other uses for this innovative concept that have yet to be voiced, other than just finding your lost items and directing you to your favourite store in a shopping centre.
Debuted at CES and currently being trialed by the Nokia Research Center in over 40 locations, Nokia Locate Sensor surely has a multitude of other potential applications. What are your ideas? Can you think of a potential use for Nokia Locate Sensor that would make it even better? Click through and leave your ideas in the comments section.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Here on Conversations we’re always on the hunt for those engaging untold stories behind a product or service, the unlikely heroes pushing innovation, and ultimately stories that we hope give you a genuinely interesting glimpse under the increasingly transparent skin of Nokia. With this in mind we want to tell you about the Nokia Fellows, a collective of unsung minds within Nokia who’d normally (and now here’s the exception) go about their business untouched by limelight.
A bunch of the brightest and most influential technological experts working within Nokia, read on as we briefly shine the torch on how the Nokia Fellows affect widespread innovation within Nokia, and watch a video interview with Valtteri Niemi, the latest person to be named a Nokia Fellow.
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TAMPERE, Finland – Nokia Image Space is one of the latest location based services in development at the Nokia Research Center – an intriguing project that’s exploring the concept of contextual photo sharing with some smart new features including the ability to automatically filter photos of an area by season or time of day.
We’ve just uploaded a video of Image Space being demoed by the Nokia Research Center team in Tampere to our Nokia Conversations YouTube channel.
Head inside for more details on this new breed of photo sharing service from NRC, and to watch a clip of Nokia Image Space up and running.
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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.
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