As part of Mobile Camp London 2007, we offered a little design/hack challenge to create a mobile mashup in a weekend. Five teams took the challenge to heart and built some interesting apps, ranging from a way to pull tv-shows from the web to using Tumblr and an N95 to take notes. We taped the presentation for your viewing pleasure:
Christian spent the two days of the conference capturing video clips using his N95 and put together this great little summary of the camp this afternoon!
Connecting people with technology. Technology that connects people must be sustainable, wearable and functional.
Current wearable technologies, eye glasses, hearing aids, IUD, pace makers, prosthetics etc.
Blue-Jacking, podcasting, moblogging and smartmobs are all items that have been all about connecting people on the move. As a result there are needs for having technology more integrated whilst on the move.
Portable and wearable are not the same thing. Portable is boxes attached to things and are carryable not integrated. Uncomfortable, awkward and not quite wearable. (more like attachable/ optional – or handbag bling ;) )
Wearable technology has a stereotype related to the military, medical and geek cultures. This however is a past stereotype. Hopefully over time this stereotype will break down and be come something normal rather than freaky.
Hug shirt: Wear the hug shirt and squeeze… then send it to a hug message through the sensors in the shirt and squishes the person when they are wearing it. These shirts are going to be shown in a sci-fi movie. These items are going to manufacturing soon, market date is to be announced at a later date.
This company is really switched on to the context and the ability to access information any time, place etc. They are also quite tuned into both the male and the female market for wearable technology.
SkateHoodie: listening to music without having to have an mp3 player attached to you. This is a device plays and stores the music for you, just attach a usb device and it just uploads it. There are again no wires in this device, the speakers are in the jacket and play.