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May 31, 2005
Cellphone ”” The Next Generation
[After Gutenberg] Rajesh, via the Pondering Primate, points to a Newsweek article about the potential for mobile phones to “leapfrog” not only digital cameras (84 million phones with digital cameras were shipped last year) but also personal computers. “This phone will be your alter ego,” says Hartmut Esslinger, Frog Design founder. Esslinger refers to his “petfrog”, a Phone of the Future, that Newsweek Next Frontiers invited him to design from scratch basing it upon what might be feasible with existing technology. The touch screen of this mockup can display currently common interfaces, e.g., keypad to keyboard to mouse pad or game console. Other versatility includes the ability to accept a variety of “smart card” enhancements. Today’s most sophisticated phones have the processing power of a mid-1990s PC while consuming 100 times less electricity. And more and more of today’s phones have computerlike features, allowing their owners to send e-mail, browse...
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Nctimes.com] North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside ...: What also is not considered are the many outside influences that can effect the students during the testing process. These teachers go above and beyond, often spending their own money to make sure students have supplies, because the government has made the ever-so-wise decision to cut the school budget. They call parents; they work with students one on one, oftentimes giving up their breaks and lunch to have someone else's child succeed. This is necessary because parents fail to help their own children and leave the responsibility of raising and educating up to the schools.
[Privateradio.org] Google sources for Aggregate: Note: There is more information about this list in the following blog entries * Google News weighting algorithms ... 30, Esslinger Zeitung. 30, Football 365 ...
[Wpcareymbaexecs.com] WP Carey MBA - Executive Program - Arizona State University ...: Many such distress shoppers are investors, looking for property to buy and fix quickly, then resell when the market picks up. "My investors' ears have gone up since the hurricanes ”” they want to find deals," said Kevin Tomlinson, an agent with Esslinger Wooten Maxwell Realtors in Miami Beach. His clients are so eager to buy damaged condos that last week he drove more than 200 miles north to the Vero Beach area in the search.
[Anu.org] American Nationalist Union: It's not stocks this time but Real Estate. Let's take a look at some quotes from the New York Times Article Trading Places: Real Estate Instead of Dot-Coms, Ron Shuffield, president of Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell Realtors says that "South Florida is working off of a totally new economic model than any of us have ever experienced in the past." He predicts that a limited supply of land coupled with demand from baby boomers and foreigners will prolong the boom indefinitely.
[Pdatoday.com] Mobile Phones Could Make Your PC Obsolete: But what if you could sidestep those business barriers and, limited only by your imagination and by the feasibility of existing technology, design the Phone of the Future from scratch? Newsweek wondered, and asked Frog Design, a 34-year-old Silicon Valley firm that helps build phones for companies like Motorola and Nextel, to work on the problem. Over the course of a month, four professional tech designers produced the specifications for the "petfrog," a sleek, enticing prophecy of things to come. The phone's touch screen can display any interface, from keypad to keyboard to mouse pad or game console.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Cybernetics, Kybernetica.com
Posted at May 31, 2005 07:13 AM
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