Nokia's Answer to the iPhone?

Since the release of the iPhone, Nokia hasn't been sitting idle. They have long been considering the future of our mobile lives. Below is just one rendition of what is to come.

Stephen Colbert on Cingular and Deregulation

Emerging Tech Standards for 2007

It’s hard keep up with the tech Jones, but if you are going to try, make sure to add the following tech terms to your vocabulary in 2007

TV Standards
Full HD (aka 1080p)
Currently the best image quality you can get on high-definition television. But content is iffy.

Slingbox
A device from Sling Media that makes live or recorded tv from your home system available to PCs and handhelds over the internet

IPTV
Standards for Internet Protocol television – means TV delivered over the web


Mobility
Follow-me TV
Lets you start watching a record TV show in your family room, and then move to your bedroom without losing your place

HSDPA / EV-DO
Two superfast 3rd generation mobile networks, the former from Cingular Wireless, the latter from Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless

Home Servers
Put all your photos, music, and video on the server that can dish them up on different devices in your home


High Definition
Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD
Two rival standards for next generation, high definition DVDs. It’s still too early to call a winner


GPS
Location Based Services
Global positioning chips in your phone lets companies figure out where you are and point you in the best local shop or restaurant


Set Top Box
HDMI
A new strand for connecting HDTV source, such as a cable set-top box, to an HD display. What is unknown is much the cable connection will cost (range between $80 to $120)

Mobile Internet Standard
Wi-MAX
A new mobile Internet standard, more advanced than Wi-Fi, that will soon be available from Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, and others

iPad

Coming to Dubai in 2009 the iPad a 23 story, $800 million apartment building shaped like an iPod and tilted an iPod-like 6 degrees for anchoring in a “docking station”

Original Post: The Dubai Life

"Made of Japan"

I quite like it when brands integrate well with local markets. Checkout the detail of this ad as they bundle the essence of Japan into the landscape of a shoe.

I believe sneakers are a canvas for creative expression and this ad created by StrawberryFrog does a good up of conveying that point. I wonder what the website will look like, and if a website does exist if this concept can be localized to fit every county's taste.

If a website does exist, how can the concept live beyond print or the web? Well I believe the next evolution of communication will be the grey area of interactive advertising. Say for example those images move or communicate directly with consumers. Lots of possibilities here.

Innovation Inbox #1

What if things weren't what they seemed or if natural was cool. These are some things that I like today.


Photo Printing on Leaves


















Company: Grand Illusions

What is it: Print lasting portraits on leaves in a process similar to printing real photos

Bona Fide: Imagine leaves reigning down on you with moving images on them of a football player throwing a touchdown or a liquor bottle swigging from side to side with a link to the URL. Effective, bio-degradable and unique

Converse Russia

Company: Converse

What is it: A fun and worthwhile journey of Converse Russia’s new website

Bona Fide: Great imagery and fun to explore

What If Google and Yahoo Switched Designers?

Company: GoogleWatch

What is it: What the ultra clean Google user interface might look like if they did things the Yahoo way

Bona Fide: Gives you an idea of how Google really is a "portal," and how well all its apps fit together into a more work-oriented Yahoo start page.

Self-Cleaning Sportswear

Company: Technovelgy

What is it: Self-cleaning fabric

Bona Fide: The same technology, created by scientists working for the U.S. Air Force, has already been used to create t-shirts and underwear that can be worn hygenically for weeks without washing

Music in the Rain - DAP Umbrella

Company: DAP umbrella

What is it: an umbrella with embedded speakers

Bona Fide: Another example of a trend towards presenting ways to listen to personal music that aren’t too intrusive, without having to plug in headphones

Thought of the day: Inside myself

Selflessness and selfishness are one in the same.

They are flip sides of the same coin.

Both paths lead to detachment.

It is the paths we choose that define us.