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Augmented Reality Future by Nokia

Here’s a video showcasing some of the future technologies dreamt up by Nokia and introduced at Nokia World. According to Nokia, this new concept featured in the video allows people to experience immersion and effortless navigation through new types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Thanks to these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds.

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Want more? go and visit Nokia labs

Save Nabaztag: because we don’t like to see bunnies die

nabaztag_tag_blogLets be honest. You wouldn’t normally associate bunny rabbits with cutting-edge technology and superior intelligence.
Of course there was that time Bugs Bunny outwitted Marvin the Martian using an Aludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator but we’re talking real-life here! Maybe that’s why thousands of fans worldwide have been utterly gobsmacked by Nabaztag/tag. Derived from the Armenian word for rabbit, this ingenious Wi-Fi-enabled bunny has revolutionned the way Wi-Fi fans receive information about… well, about anything! Continue Reading →

Create your own digital business card: it is free, “green”, unlimited and mobile

bateman2Price pulls a card from an inside coat pocket and hold it up for their inspection: “PAUL OWEN, PIERCE&PIERCE, MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS.”
Bateman swallows, speechless. The sound in the room dies down and all we hear is a faint heartbeat as Bateman stares at the magnificent card.

If you watched American Psycho, then you’re probably familiar with this famous scene of the movie in which five senior executives of PIERCE&PIERCE play at “who pees the farthest” with their business cards. Very instructive indeed…

Then if you still have doubts on how business cards are important, I’d recommend you to have a look at this website or that blog there. Else you can have a look at this cool variation featuring the excerpt of the movie upper-mentioned

Did you get it now?

YES, business cards, are not only supposed to be useful and provide your clients, audience, friends or potential business partners with your mere contact details. They’re supposed to be creative, cool and unique. Continue Reading →

Nokia Easy Meet: give your mobile phone real-time content sharing

broken-bbAt the very end of the 90′s you still had the excuse to remain unreachable for hours as mobile phones were THE hype device of early adopters or wealthy individuals. This was a blessed time.

Try and do the same today and you may lose your job or turn single… Continue Reading →

Picture of the week: a new experience of live and mobile “social networking”

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What would you do if you were walking through a park and saw a little cardboard robot struggling to make its way along the paths? Would you, good samaritan-like, help it get to its destination, or would you walk on by?

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Picture of the week: the revolution in urban motorized transport is (finally) happening

One of the reasons most urban nomads like me are working from home or away from the city is because congestion and polution in big urban places has become almost intolerable…

But that will soon turn into what only used to be a bad dream (and the last remaining traces of our Neanderthal roots)…

Segway Inc. and General Motors Corp. announced Tuesday that they are working together to develop a two-wheeled, two-seat electric vehicle designed to be a fast, efficient, inexpensive and clean alternative to traditional cars and trucks in an urban environment. Continue Reading →