Telltale contrails. Discuss

BOSTON, USA – When a plane crosses high up in the clear sky, it sometimes leaves behind a trail of conensed vapor, called a contrail. Some days, you can look up and see contrails crisscrossing the sky, revealing patterns for those who know how to look for them.

For a long time now, our mobile devices have been watching us and, in some ways, leaving a contrail of our paths behind us. This contrail could be broadcast by the various radios the devices carry, or by some app communicating continuously (or even intermittently) to some box out in the Cloud.

A recent article (see below) got us wondering how far we want to take this permission we give devices to leave these trails.

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Best of 2008 in Future Technologies – Augmented reality

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.

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Jaakko Kaidesoja on Nokia Games for 2009

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Dreaming of a sensor-filled world

ESPOO, Finland – There are many interesting things going on in the company, but there are some things that catch my attention as “important to think about”, things that will have a big impact on how we live and communicate.

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The future of weather

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.

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Fresh perspectives on the future of mobile life

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Next Thursday 5 June sees the launch of the new Nokia Research Center (NRC) program in Lausanne. Fusing the talents of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and NRC, this collaborative research venture is already promising to explore some of the most exciting and unchartered paths on the mobile development landscape, including contextually aware interaction, environment sensors and bold new visions for sustainability.