Category: Gadget Shows
Le Web 3: Possibly the most tense panel discussion I've ever witnessed!
What happens when you get Mattias Leufkens, moderator of the World Economic Forum, Rafi Haladjian of Nabaztag, Iris Ben David, of Style Shake (a site that allows you to create your own clothes using an interactive design service online), and Brent Hoberman from Last Minute and mydeco sitting on a sofa together?
A vague sense of unease, that’s what. They’ve just spent the past 30 minutes talking about the impact of design on the web, and thanks…
Le Web 3: Philippe Starck is bonkers. And Robert Scoble just asked him what he thinks of the Kindle…
Philippe Starck is currently giving a very funny talk about design and technology. His firm belief is that we are constantly designing new things when the things we are currently using work fine. He is appalled…
The best thing I've heard so far at Le Web 3 – Hans Rosling, founder of Médecins Sans Frontières
“There are hundreds of types of wine, but I only know two types: red and white. I’m not interested in wines. I don’t know wines – but I know more than two hundred types of countries. My neighbour, he knows hundreds of different types of wines, but he only knows two types of countries: western countries and third world countries. There are too many people who know wine and too few people who know countries.”
If there’s one thing you would ask of bloggers, what would you ask?
“Consider how all these blogging communites may enforce the ethnic homogeny of western europe and America. Break that…
Connect2Earth: Nokia and the WWF's environmental YouTube
Environmental charity the WWF has teamed up with Nokia on a new website called Connect2Earth, which aims to put young people’s Web 2.0 skills to work on saving the planet. It’s not due to launch until February next year, but I got a sneak preview at the Nokia World show this week, and got the lowdown from the WWF’s online outreach manager David Coles.
Nokia's hottest three new mobile concept technologies
Nokia showed off some new concept tech at its Nokia World show this week, with three standing out in particular. They’re called Click to find, Point & Find, and Interaction via Gaze (that last one’s more a description than a product title, to be honest).
Nokia World Roundup: Our posts so far from the show
It’s been a hectic two days so far in Amsterdam, zipping between talky sessions and hands-on demos at the Nokia World 2007 show. There’s plenty more posts to come, but now’s a good time to round up some of the highlights so far.
Wired Magazine’s Chris Anderson gave a thought-provoking preview of his next big theory, while the big news story was Nokia’s announcement of its Comes with Music subscription service (with further details supplied by partner Universal Music Group).
Hands on with Nokia's new Internet Radio application
Earlier this week, Nokia announced its Nokia Internet Radio application, which lets you stream online radio stations to your handset, over 3G, Wi-Fi or even GPRS. Since it’s on show at the Nokia World exhibition for the first time, I took the chance to have a go, and put some questions to Saket Gupta, program manager in Nokia’s Nseries Hear New team.
Get set for the cameraphone-enabled Internet Of Things
Next up speaking in the More Vision session at Nokia World is Dr Gaetano Borriello from the University of Washington. His session is called the Internet Of Things, but he’s focusing on using a cameraphone to overlay information onto the real world, as seen through your mobile screen.
MIT's Dr Joseph Paradiso talks Smart Spaces at Nokia World 2007
I’m still at Nokia World, although I’ve shifted rooms since Chris Anderson’s keynote, so am now in the ‘More Vision’ track (translation: the cool pointy-headed futuristic stuff).
Liveblog: Wired's Chris Anderson explains his new 'Free' theory
Exciting stuff at Nokia World, with Wired head honcho Chris Anderson taking to the stage for his keynote, entitled ‘Free’. It’s his new Big Idea following up the long tail, and he’s giving us a preview of it, in advance of a book due out next year. Liveblog follows, in chronological order.
