Hacklab: An OpenMoko Demo

Improbulus from A Consuming Experience sat down with Michael Shiloh of OpenMoko and taped this overview of the Neo 1973 handset:

Add comment | October 4th, 2007

Hacklab: Bringing Thumbtribes to OpenMoko

Will Lia of OpenMoko caught up with John Moore, who talks about his latest creation, Thumbtribes.

Thumbtribes allows you to locate friends & fellow users within a designated area. Through gps you can locate and ping friends, or simply spy on each other.

See Part II here

Add comment | October 3rd, 2007

Hacklab: Bringing LastFM to the iPhone

I caught up with Jono and Jonathan as they spent the weekend trying to get LastFM on their iPhone.

Add comment | October 3rd, 2007

Upcoming: 15% off The Future of Mobile Conference

Carson Systems would like to offer all London Mobile Campers a 15% discount to their one day conference taking place at the BFI IMAX Theatre near Waterloo station. It should be really good with speakers including Marcus Foster from Google, Dan Appelquist from Vodafone/Mobile Monday, Tom Hume from Future Platforms, and many more.

Use the code ‘mbc’ to get a 15% discount.

To click here for more information and to register.

1 comment | October 3rd, 2007

Personal Audio Information (text to speech), Peter Bond, Otodio

Peter Bond of Otodio spoke about using synthetic and real voice applications to provide more effective information to mobile users.

1 comment | October 2nd, 2007

An Overview of OpenMoko

Michael Shiloh of OpenMoko sits down with Improbulus of A Consuming Experience to go over his presentation at Mobile Camp London.

Here are the slides that accompanied this presentation:

Add comment | October 2nd, 2007

Nokia’s S60 Widget Platform Presentation

Petro Soininen from Forum Nokia was our first speaker on Saturday. He gave an overview presentation on developing widgets for Series 60 phones:

Add comment | October 2nd, 2007

Christian Lindholm’s 2 min take on mobileCampLondon

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!

Add comment | October 1st, 2007

Upcoming: Orange Code Camp

Our sponsors, Orange Partner asked that we let attendees know about an upcoming event they’ll be holding here in London:

Mash-up and develop with Orange – European tour dates announced
6 & 7 November, London – UK
27 & 28 November, Paris – France
11 & 12 December, Madrid – Spain

Do you want to find out what Orange is doing in the world of web 2.0 and the commercial opportunities it offers you? Are you a mobile developer looking to extend your skills to web 2.0? Are you an experienced developer creating mash-ups and widgets?

If so register now to attend this free event (for members of the Orange Partner programme)

What will happen?
The two day event will kick-off with a commercial overview to provide attendees with detailed information on what Orange and France Telecom are doing in the world of web.2.0 and why. Find out the benefits of developing mash-ups and widgets, plus get an insight into the APIs that Orange will imminently be launching.

This will be followed by a 1 ½ day Code Camp for techies. Attendees will be split into groups depending on their level of experience, to get really stuck-in to coding and development with hands-on help from the Bubbletop, Pikeo and Design and Usability teams.

In the afternoon of the second day prizes will be awarded to the best mash-ups and widgets!

Click here to get more information and to register for this event.

1 comment | October 1st, 2007

Wearable Technology – Cute Circuit

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.

3 comments | September 30th, 2007