Any mobile worker would have to travel and work with its own environment but would also be able to adapt to any environment. Here are the 5 golden rules to keep in mind before going to a travel I learned in 2009. It’s probably a reminder to most of the reader of this blog … but also a good way to go back to the basic.
Size matters
Being mobile implies to deal with the size and the weight of objects the mobile worker would have to carry. And sometimes, being a …

The iLuv Micro USB Car adapter turns your car’s cigarette outlet into a universal USB charger, so you don’t have to buy specialized car chargers for all of your USB-chargeable gear.
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Maptor is an innovative portable map projector concept by Jin-Sun Park and Seon-Keun Park that promises to eliminate the need for paper maps.
Equipped with GPS and a small projector, Maptor allows the user to display map on almost any surface and view their current location. It somehow reminds me the mobile phone with embedded GPS which displays arrows on the ground in “Microsoft’s vision to the future”.
Creating a concept is nice, turning it into reality is even better.

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Hello all,
Nicolas was kind enough to invite me to share my experiences with mobile VoIP, specifically with Sipdroid on the Android platform. I’ll start by providing a quick summary of the technology, and how applications are now utilizing it.
Simply speaking, VoIP – short for Voice-over-IP – is a general term for technologies which route phone calls over the internet, rather than regular telephony networks. The result is very cheap telephony, or in the case of pure internet-to-internet communications, free telephony.
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The best part about being a freelancer is having the freedom to set your own schedule and make your own rules. This, however, can also be the worst part. Without the normal structure of an office environment, many would-be freelancers find themselves wondering at the end of the day where all their time went. Getting the most out of your workday can be tough.
Cameron Chapman of Smashing Magazine, provides sixteen tips to help you better manage your time and improve your time management experience (“How to find time for…  …

For those of you who are not yet familiar with it, Spotify is a nice (free) music streaming application which gives (free) access to 6 million+ tracks. Generally speaking,  Spotify offers a better, easier and more optimized way to enjoy your favorite music online than other services like Lastfm, Deezer and Pandora.
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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

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THE absolut trip of a mobile nomad

The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
one year walk/beard grow time lapse by Christoph Rehage
November 9th 2007 – November 13th 2008
one year on foot – 4646km through China
unlimited beard & hair growth
(thank you christoph for this “trip”)
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“And then the invasion slowly started, deeply burying its roots in the neuralgic points of major industrial cities, before it spread all over the World.
And there they were, all around us, before we realized it was too late.”
To that point you are maybe wondering if this is some kind of stupid joke like the Crop Circles, a punk movement like the Army of the Twelve Monkeys or if this is real and we are under the threat of an Alien-like invasion.
“None of them” you’ll say. And you’re damn right and …

While browsing the news today I just came up with a couple of articles from serious publications celebrating the release at IFA of one of Philips’ latest innovation: the CushionSpeaker.
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