Um die Bedienungsfreundlichkeit und intuitive Nutzung seiner Produkte zu erhöhen, setzt der Elektronikkonzern Philips auf den Endnutzer: Nun wurden Anwendungen vorgestellt, die die Design-Abteilung gemeinsam mit Nutzern entwickelt hat. (more…)

The existential view on life is shifting from a largely external oriented view towards a
more and more internal oriented view. It is no longer only the effect on the outside
world, but the effect on our inner selves, our experience that is driving our decisions
and therefore shaping our consumption patterns. The economy transforms into an
experience economy in order to support more and more people in their need towards
psychological self-determination and wellbeing.

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This smh article reports “a UK study tracking the social impact of the mobile phone technology discovered a number of unexpected uses for the phones as well as an emerging sexual divide when it came to the act of recording video content.Men in the study tended to adopt new personas for the camera and were also more inclined to explore the technical features of the phone,while the women sent more intimate and unscripted messages to friends and occasionally deployed the phone as a mirror for putting on makeup or to snap celebrities”.Further,”out of the research emerged a number of potential uses of the video phone ranging from citizen journalism to safeguarding personal safety.According to the researchers Future Laboratory and partner mobile phone operator 3, these were the top ten. Top 10 3G trends:

1. Proofing - using a 3G handset to video anything from a celebrity sighting to bad service in a restaurant to use as visual evidence later on

2. Mobumentaries - people using their phones to create mini-movies documenting their lives

3. The Andrew Marr effect - Men’s tendency to adopt an alternative persona and give a running commentary in the style of a news report when recording on their phone.

4. Visual Vanity - Women turning their video phones on themselves for anything from applying makeup to trying on a new outfit for a more realistic view of how they look than in a mirror

5. Talent scouting - the video mobile becomes the ultimate boy’s toy on a Saturday night as groups of mates undertake reconnaissance missions at different parties to find the best ‘talent’ of the opposite sex

6. Virtual phone box - the tendency for people to create their own personal space to make a video call even if it means marking out a phone box size space by pacing in a small rectangle while on the phone

7. Icebreakers - When introducing someone to another group in advance, people would record a short video message or ’social passport” to send in advance of the meeting to break the ice

8. Night safe - Girls used their video mobiles to record a clip of a cab driver before they got in, to send to a friend as a ’safety bank’

9. Video gloating - showing off via video covered everything from sending a clip of a new purchase to a football chant if their team had lost

10. Citizen journalism - the rise of the lay journalist continues people uploading their own ‘at-the-scene’ reports or celebrity spottings.

Die menschliche Haut wird als Datenkabel der Zukunft gesehen. Als erste Anwendung könnte die Haut im Auto für die Übertragung von Daten genutzt werden. Berührt der Fahrer das Auto, öffnet sich das Schloss. (more…)