Just a few snippets to keep you guys in the picture with mobile technology development - some useful, some lucrative, some crazy...
- Wap in Jaw. NTT Japan have been working on a mobile phone that can fit in your tooth/jaw and operates by sensing your jaw movements. Means you can talk silently on the subway - as if it isn't weird enough seeing strangers talking to themselves now we'll all believe we've got wax in our ears....
- HyperTag - BabeCell's been speaking with these guys for some time. Love their technology. An InfraRed receiver can be placed anywhere - behind posters, worn on the body or on in bars/clubs. Consumers just point their mobile at the device and download content, tickets, marketing....the birth of adult content 'vending' for your phone??
- Mobile barcodes/coupons. Been around a while now in Europe but still struggling to take off. But seeing a barcode on your phone that can be scanned in is always pretty cool, gets me everytime I see it scanned from my Cell - and I like the idea of walking into Walmart and swiping my phone to get free stuff...hope to see it in Hustler Hollywood stores soon!
- Location tracking. Not yet widley available in the US to you and I but tracking the location of mobile phones (down to 100M in cities) is a big biz in the UK. All you need is the cell phone number and triangulation takes care of the rest. Find-an-Escort? Yeah - been done here now by some smart entrepreneur - but for me it comes in very handy when staff claim they're at home sick in bed....where's that pink slip??
'Till my next update - keep textin' !
Chris, CEO
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