The Nokia 5500, a pioneer in mobile technology, brings forth a 3D motion sensor that opens doors to a new realm of interactive experiences. While it aims to assist users in their fitness journeys by tracking calories, distance, and steps, there's a call to embrace a more playful approach. Instead of merely counting numbers, this technology holds the promise of transforming how we engage with our surroundings, encouraging a blend of movement and creativity. As Nokia prepares to launch an SDK for developers, the potential for motion-sensitive applications feels boundless, inviting us to envision a world where exercise and play intertwine seamlessly.

Flight tracking has taken a poetic turn with fboweb.com, where you can effortlessly track flights by entering a number or tail ID. The service, now enhanced with KML files, allows users to visualize flight paths in Google Earth, bridging the gap between the digital and the real world. This innovation not only serves as a tool for travelers but also provides insights into the intricate dance of operations at airports. As we explore this intersection of technology, geography, and social practices, the potential for reshaping our understanding of movement and efficiency becomes vividly apparent.

We are excited to unveil geotagthings, a project born from a few months of creative brainstorming. It offers a straightforward method to assign geographic metadata to web resources, allowing you to easily tag any URL with its geographical coordinates. With a user-friendly bookmarklet, you can pinpoint locations on a map and add notes, making it a breeze to create a living archive of digital landmarks. The resulting data can be accessed through customizable RSS feeds, turning your favorite places into a stream of stories that flow seamlessly into your news aggregator. Join our collaborative geospatial tagging adventure and help bridge the gap between real life and the digital realm.

The Ubicomp conference’s Demonstrations Program offers an excellent way to showcase tangible results of ubiquitous computing research and development to over 500 attendees from academia and industry. A successful demo communicates ideas and concepts in a powerful way that a regular presentation cannot. We invite y…

Else/Where=Amsterdam: June 10:

MOBILE ASIA COMPETITION 2006:

Nicolas and I gave our presentation yesterday at Reboot on Blogjects. It was a lot of fun to think about how to deliver our early thinking and insights and capture the substance of the concept, and deliver some of the design thoughts developed at the workshops, and think of the ways these things tie into the many ot…

TripSense. I first wrote a little bit about this about six months ago. My car insurer asked if I would plug this data recording module into the special data port on my car — that port that the mechanic plugs into when your Check Engine light comes on.

reboot 8 is awfully fun, insightful, brilliant and engaging. There’s so much here that is being discussed that I’m rationing pages in my little portable notebook. Notebook? Yeah, because some of th emost exciting conversations happen f2f out on the front lawn of this amazing space where the weather has been accommod…