When I saw this on Tokyo Mango, the first thing that came to my mind was the ShePhone, a crazy concept phone design with at least a half dozen functions having nothing to do with communication. (Mia is credited with its design, which is another story.)

Developed, and currently being tested, by NTT Communications, the “Mobile Fragrance Communication” service is not as futuristic as I first thought. As it turns out, the fragrance isn’t actually emitted by the cell phone itself; the service is a mobile version of an existing service which connects downloaded audiovisual content with fragrances that come out of a separate device. So, with this mobile version, you download a “fragrance playlist” on your cell phone, then the fragrance data is transferred via the phone’s infrared port to the fragrance device which contains fragrance cartridges. A device controller connected to the Internet can also receive instructions from your cell phone remotely.

Apparently, the company’s plan is to partner with mobile content providers to pair fragrances with videos, music, and other content.

Seems like an awful lot of trouble relative to the benefit, but who am I to say, considering I once said that same thing about TiVo?

source: popgadget

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The entire shell is made of tiles - tiles you can customize and slide around for a one of a kind look. Replace and update them as often as you like.

Designer: Tzu-Fu Wang

further detail on Yanko Design

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Now I like my keyboard as much as the next person (probably more considering it’s cool and wireless), but once it has worn out its lifespan it ends up chucked, however exciting it may be. Well this geeky bag proves that life doesn’t have to end when the keystrokes die, with a design that incorporates keys all over it. I like how the
designer Joao Sabino has taken an everyday item and turned it into a wearable piece of art too.

Like that? See here for more covers and bags.

source: shinyshiny

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Every market research firm worth its salt has spent some time studying this peculiar creature known as the iPhone user. To date, we know they tend to gravitate to the mobile web. But what about other insights? Do they, for instance, enjoy using their mobile devices to talk with other human beings? According to a recent survey from iSuppli, not so much.

The firm found that, on average, owners of all types of mobile handsets here in the U.S. use their phones for good old fashion voice communication about 72 percent of the time. IPhone users, by contrast, spend only 47 percent of their time gabbing.

Instead, they seem to enjoy accessing the internet (12 percent), listening to tunes (12 percent), e-mailing (10 percent) and texting (15 percent). That leaves an unaccounted for 4 percent, which we’ll guess is devoted to some sort of “convergence high.”

source: wired

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google’s top three executives had pledged to work together for 20 years in a pact they made shortly before the company’s initial public offering in August 2004, Fortune magazine has reported.

Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin , together with Chief Executive Eric Schmidt say in a joint interview for Fortune’s February 4th issue that the three had agreed to work together for two decades starting one month before the 2004 IPO.

“We agreed the month before we went public that we should work together for 20 years,” said Schmidt, who added that he will be 69 years old by that time. Page would be 51 and Brin 50.

A Google spokesman could not immediately be reached to comment.

Schmidt is Google’s chairman. Page is president of products and Brin is president of technology. Each is a billionaire.

With a market capitalization now around $170 billion, the world’s most valuable Internet company is scheduled to report results for the final quarter of 2007 on Thursday.

Wall Street expects Google to report 2007 revenue around $16.6 billion, an increase of 57 percent over the prior year.

source : PCWorld

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Hello all, again a nice interview this week on npost. Thanks a lot to Nathan C. Kaiser who conducted this great interview over the phone.

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Once again, I’d like to mention a nice article from Nathan Kaiser Nick Katers who conducted a very nice interview with me. You can find the article here. Enjoy the read

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Just a quick post to let you know that Tom Hayes has informed me that CrowdSpirit is featured in a new book from McGraw-Hill, Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business. It hits the stores in a few weeks but is available now for pre-order on Amazon.

Book Description

“Take the leap into a new era of viral business-and tap into a billion-plus consumer base“

“In Jump Point, Silicon Valley veteran Tom Hayes crafts a visionary, exhilarating, and often startling look at our fast-approaching business future. Welcome to the world of “pandemic economics;” a nonstop global economy characterized by network nation states, billion-selling products, and trillion-dollar markets“

“Jump Point illustrates how the next economy will arrive at an inflection point just 1000 days away. Managers and organizations that survive the “jump” will find themselves in a strange new landscape of unfamiliar players and unforgiving power laws. From shape-shifting consumers, to competitive jihads, to the wealth-evaporating forces of runaway “mudflation,” Hayes takes you on an eye-opening ride to the world of the jump point and beyond.”

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Hello all,

CrowdSpirit was featured this week-end on the first page of l’expansion.com which is a famous french newspaper about economy. I’d like to personnaly thanks Gilles Musi, who is the journalist from l’expansion, who wrote this very good article.

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We’re off for 2 weeks. All the CrowdSpirit team wish you a merry christmas and an happy new year. We’re back the 2nd of january.

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