Showing posts with label Videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Videos. Show all posts
Saturday 17 March 2012
Saturday 25 February 2012
Saturday 4 February 2012
Adding new dimensions to the future phones - Smell
I am going to be involved in two events in the coming months to discuss about Evolution of Devices in the future. The first of them is the LTE World Summit that I have been going to for years and have recommended to lots of clients, colleagues and friends. In there I will be discussing about 'The Future Device' in the Breakfast briefing. In June I am chairing a session on 'Where Next For Devices' in The Future of Wireless International Conference. As a result I would be discussing some ideas on the blog with the intention of getting some valuable feedback and comments.
Smell has been associated with the mobile devices for a long time. There are two concepts floating around. The first is a phone that can smell the environment for certain odour or harmful gases and depending on what it smells, alerts the user or some authority. An example of this are the phones being developed by US Department of Homeland Security to smell poisonous gases. Another example is the e-nose concept developed by Imec, Belgium. There are other concepts being developed around m-health to help people with Asthma.
The second of these concepts are the devices that can emit smell. The simplest form of this would be like the Sony phones that emit fragrance for a few months and then a new sheet can be inserted for them to keep emitting a fragrance. A while back it was reported that Samsung has filed a patent for something similar.
Nokia had shown years back the 'Scentsory Concept' mobile that can transmit smell based on the environment to the other party who can get the feeling of where the other person is. Since then they have shown other concepts but I dont recall seeing much on smell. The 'HumanForm' concept I blogged about last year showed that we would be able to feel the environment but it was surprisingly quiet about smell part.
There is an interesting TEDx video in which Jenny Tillotson, who would be presenting her latest research in the Future Wireless conference mentioned abaove, is explaining some of these concepts on transmitting smell electronically. Video embedded below:
I would be very interested in hearing more on this topic from the readers.
Smell has been associated with the mobile devices for a long time. There are two concepts floating around. The first is a phone that can smell the environment for certain odour or harmful gases and depending on what it smells, alerts the user or some authority. An example of this are the phones being developed by US Department of Homeland Security to smell poisonous gases. Another example is the e-nose concept developed by Imec, Belgium. There are other concepts being developed around m-health to help people with Asthma.
The second of these concepts are the devices that can emit smell. The simplest form of this would be like the Sony phones that emit fragrance for a few months and then a new sheet can be inserted for them to keep emitting a fragrance. A while back it was reported that Samsung has filed a patent for something similar.
Nokia had shown years back the 'Scentsory Concept' mobile that can transmit smell based on the environment to the other party who can get the feeling of where the other person is. Since then they have shown other concepts but I dont recall seeing much on smell. The 'HumanForm' concept I blogged about last year showed that we would be able to feel the environment but it was surprisingly quiet about smell part.
There is an interesting TEDx video in which Jenny Tillotson, who would be presenting her latest research in the Future Wireless conference mentioned abaove, is explaining some of these concepts on transmitting smell electronically. Video embedded below:
I would be very interested in hearing more on this topic from the readers.
Saturday 28 January 2012
Webinar: Bridging the gap between LTE and 1xEV-DO
Interesting webinar from Rohde & Schwarz
There are another couple of interesting Video from R&S from the LTE North America 2011
VoLTE and Audio Quality Test
SMS over IMS Verification
There are another couple of interesting Video from R&S from the LTE North America 2011
VoLTE and Audio Quality Test
SMS over IMS Verification
Friday 2 December 2011
Mobile Video is more than 50% of the data traffic
Saturday 12 November 2011
Video on the Vision of the Future
I came across couple of videos recently on how User Interface for the future is going to be different than what we are used to. Its already getting changed as we get used to the touch screens and gesture recognition. Here is the first video that came out couple of weeks back and has already had over 2 million hits:
There is a whole blog post dedicated to this which you may be interested in, available here.
Another one is on the gesture recognition that will probably make big on the future devices including TVs.
On a lighter note, the future generation would probably just take the touch and gesture recognition for granted. Here is one such video:
Monday 7 November 2011
Ericsson Video: Networked Society 'On the Brink'
In On The Brink we discuss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud. Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked Society. Concepts such as borderless opportunities and creativity, new open business models, and today's 'dumb society' are brought up and discussed.
Saturday 5 November 2011
Three quick 3GPP Videos
Balazs Bertenyi, Dealing with the data explosion: Speaking about how 3GPP manages Releases and giving details of some of the key LTE features and some new work on the horizon.
Andrew Howell, GERAN and LTE Interworking: Andrew Howell, 3GPP GERAN Chairman, gives some background on the work of the GSM/EDGE RAN groups, including GELTE and the impact of machine type communications over legacy networks in the LTE age.
See also my earlier post on GELTE here.
Atle Monrad is Chairman of the 3GPP Core Network and Terminals group. In this short film, he explains the role of the protocol groups and gives a snap shot of the latest priorities for his group.
If you want to learn more about 3GPP, see earlier blog post here.
Monday 31 October 2011
Phones with Flexible Screens in 2012
From PC World:
Samsung Electronics said Friday that it is aiming to launch mobile phones with flexible displays next year, with tablets and other portable devices to have these displays soon after.
The company said it was aiming to follow on the success of its Galaxy S II smartphone, which has now sold 10 million units in five months.
The comments came as the company discussed its earnings for the three-month period through September. Samsung said its overall profit fell 23 percent from a year ago to 3.44 trillion Korean won (US$3.1 billion), dragged down by its chip and display operations, but operating profit at its mobile unit more than doubled in the period.
"The flexible display, we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part," said spokesman Robert Yi during an earnings call. "The application probably will start from the handset side."
Yi said tablets and other mobile devices with flexible displays would follow.
Samsung has shown flexible OLED (organic light emitting diode) displays inside rigid cases that kept the screens curved. The technology has material within each pixel that generates light, making it perhaps more suitable for flexible screens than LCDs, which would require both a flexible screen and a backlight.
This is a Video from CES 2011 in January:
I like this concept of bendy phones. The following Nokia video shows how this could really be useful.
Toshiba shows something similar at SID 2010.
News via WebProNews.
Saturday 22 October 2011
Ericsson Video: Using LTE to broadcast Danish elections
Danes elected a new parliament September 15. As four teams from TV 2 moved between party headquarters, Parliament House and celebration sites, they used standard off-the-shelf LTE terminals to upload interviews to the tv-station, which in turn broadcast the content live to viewers on their channel.
The solution is provided by operator TDC, on the network supplied and managed by Ericsson.
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Panel Session on Small Cells (Femtocells) from Cambridge Wireless SIG event
Panel Session on Small Cells (Femtocells) from Cambridge Wireless SIG event from Zahid Ghadialy on Vimeo.
From the Cambridge Wireless Small Cell Special Interest Group event
“Small Cells: the beginning and where we are now”
15 September 2011
At The IET, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL
Panel Session
Chair: Mike Bowerman, Account Manager, Alcatel Lucent.
Participants (from Left to right):
Professor Will Stewart, IET
Houston Spencer, VP Solutions and Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
Will Franks, CTO and Founder, Ubiquisys
Chris Cox, Director of Marketing, ip.access
More details about the speakers and the event available at: http://www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/Agenda/SCS1_15.09.11.pdf
Monday 19 September 2011
Summary from the 'Small Cells' Event in Cambridge Wireless
We recently had our first 'Small Cells' SIG event in Cambridge Wireless entitled 'Small Cells: The beginning and where we are now'. The following presentation is the Introduction to Cambridge wireless and the 'Small Cells' SIG (special interest group).
Embedded below are the slides and the videos that were taken by our host for the day, 'The IET'.
The first presentation was by Prof. Will Stewart of The IET entitled 'Small Cells - Why small cells?'.
Next presentation: 'Small Cells - the big brother of femtocells. Why they are needed, and where is the femtocell market that they build on' by Will Franks, Ubiquisys
Next Presentation: 'Small Cells - On the origin of Small Cells by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured providers in the struggle for mobile broadband' by Houston Spencer, Alcatel-Lucent
Final Presentation: 'Small Cells - Mass scale femtocell deployments' by Chris Cox, IP.Access
Overall it was a good event. The main complaint was that people had lots of questions but didnt get to ask them. Hopefully they will ask them in the future events.
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Saturday 20 August 2011
Lobbying for more Spectrum
The following Video is prepared by Mobile Future which is a coalition in the US of some major companies and have been lobbying for increase in the availability of the Spectrum.
Sunday 14 August 2011
mHealth – Mobile Healthcare; consumer, doctors, healthcare providers, hardware and software tech enablers
Friday 5 August 2011
TED talk: Wireless data from every light bulb
What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, he can transmit far more data than a cellular tower -- and do it in a way that's more efficient, secure and widespread.
See also :
Saturday 25 June 2011
Sunday 12 June 2011
Saturday 28 May 2011
Videos from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum 2011
Most of the videos from the Ericsson Innovation Forum 2011 are available on Youtube. Click on the links to watch the video:
Håkan Eriksson, SVP, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ericsson in Silicon Valley
Douglas Gilstrap, SVP, Chief Strategist, Ericsson
Vision of the Networked Society and our strategy to get there
Paul Saffo, Managing Director, Foresight at Discern Analytics and Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Magnus Mandersson, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Services, Ericsson
Erik Kruse, Networked Society Lab, Ericsson
Lior Netzer, Vice President, Mobile Network Strategy, Akamai
The cloud can make anyone an entrepreneur
Dhiraj Kumar, Mobile Strategist, Facebook
Wayne Ward, Vice President of Emerging Solutions, Sprint Nextel
Does a cow need to be connected? Connecting things and machine-to-machine
Håkan Eriksson, SVP, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ericsson in Silicon Valley
Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA
Operator 3.0
Chris Russo, Deputy Fire Chief, Hull, Massachusetts and Executive Vice President and founder of Elerts
Philip Marthinsen, Producer and partner at House of Radon
Jan Uddenfeldt, Chief Technology Officer, Sony Ericsson
Martin Körling, Head of Services & Software Research, Ericsson
Arun Bhikshesvaran, Vice President, Strategy & Market Development, Ericsson North America
Brian Higgins, Executive Director, LTE Ecosystem Development, Verizon Wireless
Michael Björn, Head of Research, Ericsson ConsumerLab
Mario Morales, Program Vice President, Enabling Technologies Group, IDC
Smart technology in Silicon Valley
Brian Wilcove, General Partner, Sofinnova Ventures
Complete agenda of the event here.
Sunday 8 May 2011
What is '4G' ?
One of the most popular posts is Dilbert's definition of '4G'. So I decided to go back and see how and if the definition of '4G' has changed over the time.
And finally my '4G' FAQ from 2006 that is seriously outdated and needs updating :)
Back in 2008, '4G' was more of WiMAX. Here is a video from that time:
2009 video of Cisco where they are pushing for 4G = IP :
2010 video that says 4G = fast :
And finally my '4G' FAQ from 2006 that is seriously outdated and needs updating :)
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