Protos

@ MIT they have made a system that can display the use (activity) of mobile in a urban environment.

This enables the tracking of “hot spots”; which is a rather interesting way to view a city.

Image: Street map of Graz, Austria, overlaid with an electronic visualization of cellphone activity.

Commercial for I-Phone! really well made.

I really like the core idea – it’s a good example. That’s how I feel when I’m happy listening to music and my phone rings. You can snap in and out of that music world feeling.

Well someone smarter that I have probably already made this point but: I’m pretty sure that Apple joined the battle for being the über device to late.

Well we will see in the mean time look at this I-Phone ad

Well a flashmob is when the masses gather coordinating their effort by e.g. SMS.

Thats what happend in Vancover when people tried to make some sort of statement by adding a Disney experience to a mall.

Come on kids – dressing up won’t impress the people who do evil now will it? :D

Some of them looks pretty cool though:

Look at more pictures at the Flicr Zoobie pool

I wonder how it feels to steal a cell phone take a lot of pictures of yourself with it and then find out that they have been uploaded to a website automatically =)

Well it happend to this dude:

“Long Island stock clerk John Clennan didn’t take this photo, but his stolen camera phone did — after someone burgled it from his parked car earlier this month.”

Read the whole story @ wired

BBC has an interesting article about how the use of mobile phones in traffic are a clear danger amongst teenagers!

news.bbc.co.uk:

“Some 30% of London teenagers admit they are distracted by using their mobile phones when crossing the road, a survey has shown.

The findings by road safety group THINK! also revealed 21% of 11-16 year olds had been in a traffic accident or “near miss”"

I felt quite guilty when I read it – since i text when crossing the street or on my bicycle. I even sometimes get the *wow* feeling og a near miss when traffic gets close to me – but it does not make me stop texting.

Ohh and BTW. Im not a teenager :-)

This article by the telegraph describes how the main stream mobile has made people think of time as something more plastique.

“Nearly one in five people admitted to being unreliable about timekeeping because they had the “safety net” of a mobile. Three quarters said mobiles had made them more “flexible” when meeting friends – allowing them to arrange or cancel social gatherings at the last minute.”

It’s the beginning of the end. People are only thinking about their OWN time…

Not a word on the people waiting…