ESPOO, Finland – Okay, not too much on this but it’s important enough to warrant it’s own post. Nokia researchers are looking at how information gathered from Nokia devices could be aggregated and processed to turn out an up to the minute weather service.
Sound a bit nutty? Read on and find out why this could actually happen.
ESPOO, Finland – Opening the second annual ‘The Way We Live Next’ conference at Nokia HQ in Espoo, chief technology officer Bob Iannucci gives an insight into ‘Agenda 2015′ – what Nokia thinks the world will be like seven years from now.
Iannucci talks about the eight areas of focus for research in Agenda 2015 and how the research is actually being carried out.
LONDON, England – This morning I’m writing from Heathrow’s terminal one (not as bad as they say) but tomorrow morning I’ll be updating from Helsinki. See, this week sees the second annual “The Way We Live Next” conference hosted by the folks at Nokia Research Center. Last year we struggled with the low light of Oulu, but this year we’re being treated to insights and updates directly from Nokia HQ.
ESPOO, Finland – Nokia reorganized recently around Internet service creation and deployment, is rolling out Internet service after Internet service, and using a lot of brain cycles of very smart people to fuse mobile services with the Internet services. Yeah, this isn’t your father’s mobile phone company anymore.
But that got me thinking. What parts of Nokia could stand on their own? I mean, is Nokia just in the phone business?
HELSINKI, Finland – The minds over at the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, have just published a report on a new breed of mobile universal remote called Homebird. The idea simply being that you’d be able to control any wireless WLAN device in your home remotely via your Nokia handset, be it remotely scheduling TV recordings, adjusting lighting throughout your home, or controlling any networked digital aspect of your life from anywhere.
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.
Recently I’ve been on a bit of a mobile behavior binge, writing at any opportunity about context aware services and how their rapid evolution could unwittingly yet positively affect the way we use our handsets. The reason? Simply that I believe that we’re in one of the most fascinating periods of transition when it comes to our mobile lifestyles, as location-based services are now a reality with the growth of GPS and faster connections, making it tremendously exciting as a phone user looking at the horizon.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Nokia’s hunger for collaboration and gleaning ideas from the world’s brilliant minds is one of the pillars of its innovation strategy, and crucial in shaping the mobile future. The recently opened Nokia Research Centre in Lausanne, dedicated to studying the Internet of Things, continues Nokia’s ‘sharing ethos’ and is looking to recruit anyone with ideas to drive forward this major research project.
HELSINKI, Finland – In a recent interview with top global news agency AFP, Leo Kärkkäinen, one of the chief visionaries at the Nokia Research Centre may have joked that “maybe some time in the future mobile phones will grow in a pot like plants or maybe you could print a new phone”, but his tongue-in-cheek quip perfectly highlights the far-reaching breadth of research being explored behind the scenes.
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