Posts tagged “nokia”

Portable Cathedrals

Our idea is to offer an alternative to a discourse dominated by the likes of Engadget, Techcrunch, DPReview, Gizmodo et al. Sites like these cover products and services in unparalleled levels of technical detail and with respected in-depth knowledge. Yet they rarely discuss design in any meaningful way or the wider cultural impact of such [...]

The Around Project

The Around project from Sequence Point software has just launched in beta for nokia’s n97 phone.  It describes itself as augmented reality in that it adds a layer of information to whatever you are looking at through your phone. Thus in effect it means that pulling information from the cloud onto the city in real [...]

Harvesting the Air

What if our buildings could harvest power from the air, not wind or solar but literally out of thin air? Its not as crazy as it first sounds with cities literally spewing out  electromagnetic radiation from TV, Radio, and Mobile phones constantly. That’s just what Nokia is doing right now,  actively researching this for future [...]