HELSINKI, Finland – Nokia Locate Sensor has rapidly established itself as one of the most talked-about developments in the mobile realm. We’ve been lucky enough to get hold of a new video from the Nokia Research Center showcasing indoor positioning and Nokia Locate Sensor in action, as well as get info on the trials that are being currently being carried out.
Click through for more info on NRC’s indoor positioning solution and to see it in the wild.
GLOBAL – Nokia Locate Sensor sparked a surge of worldwide interest, and indoor positioning obviously plays a vital role in the development of this hot concept.
Since we brought you word of the Nokia Research Center refreshing its website and more clearly connecting the dots between Nokia concepts and real-life products and services last week, NRC has released an interesting new paper on Location, Context and mobile services. Granted it’s not super in-depth, nonetheless it does touch on some interesting aspects of NRC’s plans in this crucial area of development, including a few much talked about projects including Nokia Point&Find, but also mentions lesser known developments such as the Nokoscope project (which we’ll talk about in a separate post this week), and also offers more information on NRC’s approach to indoor positioning, indirectly yet pertinently referring to Nokia Locate Sensor and the technology behind it.
GLOBAL - Nokia Research Center may conjure up visions of a kooky sprawling Willy Wonka lab for phones tucked away in an address-less wilderness, but the reality is in some ways far more engaging. Far from fantasy, with labs dotted across the globe in ten locations, including Beijing, Bangalore, Nairobi, Tampere, Helsinki, Lausanne, Cambridge UK, Cambridge USA, Hollywood and Palo Alto, the Nokia Research Center (NRC) is a huge operation that to many may feel intangible – partly because a number of the projects that are being researched are indeed secret, but mostly because the connection between NRC’s research and real-life end products has appeared pretty disconnected.
But a more tangible connection between NRC and the real world may be beginning to emerge, helped simply by the very recent launch of its newly designed and more openly engaging website. Click through for the full lowdown.
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.
LAS VEGAS, USA – Nokia Research kept this one quiet – Nokia Locate Sensor can help you find lost keys, phones, bags, purses or anything you’re likely to need right before you rush out the door. Revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show, it’s currently a project kicking around the labs at the Nokia Research Centre, but it’s an interesting one.
GLOBAL – Morph managed to capture the imaginations of so many us when it was first unveiled as a concept device back in March 2008, showcased at the The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition. By boldly waving a red rag of future mobile possibilities in front of our eyes and we collectively rushed towards it intensely intrigued.
It was a glimpse at a future, and not necessarily the future, nonetheless, looking forward inspired reaction, contemplation and an air of positivity and promise.
Something we reckon that is worth championing.
GLOBAL (physically and digitally) – The idea of interacting with the real world through a digital overlay is not new. Folks have been discussing this augmented reality for some time. But, here at Nokia Conversations, it’s one of the top stories of 2008, since we realized we wrote a ton of stories around sensors, augmented reality, what’s been going on, and where it’s all going.
And while we might be overly optimistic about a sensor-filled world, it’s important we heed the cautions from folks who have been thinking of this longer than most of us.
GLOBAL – Last week Nokia designer and human behavioral researcher Jan Chipchase posed an interesting scenario related to Augmented Reality and architecture of the future – “To what extent will tomorrow’s urban architecture be designed to be digitally augmentable?” He refers to the concept of projecting images onto architecture, essentially acting as canvasses of digitally harvestable information via your device’s camera. He even mentions the idea of ‘proximity broadcasting’ via sources such as street lights.
HOLLYWOOD, USA – A new Nokia Research Center has sprouted Stateside in the country’s entertainment capital. Echoing the theme of the location, NRC Hollywood’s core focus is on exploring new entertainment experiences and technologies that fuse the digital and physical worlds for the sake of fun.
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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