Mobile Creativity

EyeSpyFX has launched an iPhone app on the App Store. My Webcam enables users to view their home USB webcams. It is an ideal application for home monitoring.

This picture - changes everything. The site has the feeling of a new religion.

Nokia Research Center Hollywood will work with members of the media & entertainment industry including new technology companies and creative talent, together with leading universities in the region to drive long-term research activities to further strengthen Nokia’s leadership position in the convergence of internet and mobility.

“Hollywood has an enormous variety of academic institutions, innovative media businesses and unique creative talent. It offers exactly the right ingredients for research into topics that will be vital for Nokia’s business in the future. The link with the movie industry is naturally strong, however the entertainment concepts we will be working on at the NRC Hollywood laboratory are even more diverse. The laboratory will explore new entertainment experiences that combine the physical and digital worlds. Our research work will focus on mixed reality experiences, with a strong community flavor. We will develop new user interfaces that fully explore the role of the human body and human motion for more natural forms of interaction. Mobile devices will play a central role in this,” commented Rebecca Allen, Laboratory Director of NRC Hollywood.

http://research.nokia.com/research/labs/teams/mixed_reality_experiences

EyeSpyFX is pleased to announce that our flagship product PhoneStreamFX has scooped an Orange “best of category” award in the Utilities section of the Orange Application store.

PhoneStreamFX will be profiled to all Orange country managers and will be feature at the Cape Canaveral Orange Partner Camp this December. Anthony Hutton (EyeSpyFX, MD) will attend the Cape Canaveral event compliments of Orange and will use the platform to promote new EyeSpyFX products including a number of iphone apps.

EyeSpyFX is a University of Ulster spin out company specialising in Mobile Content and Technology. The company was founded by Anthony Hutton (Senior Lecturer, Industrial Design, School of Creative Arts). PhoneStreamFX is a Java application for Mobile Phones that enables users to view home webcams.

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The new blackberry storm has a haptic interface that buzzes when you type. It makes the experience of using the touch screen feel more like a keyboard.

Check out the company that specialises in haptic interfaces

http://www.immersion.com/mobility/touchscreen/benefits.php

A pretty amazing multimedia interface…has been developed by Amazon. Its called Amazon window shop. Try it out here

Some believe that Chrome is the first step by Google toward a Web OS. I think so too. Except that the meaning of OS will have to be re thought. There is no point in Google making an OS for PC’s. There is already a number of very good FREE - OPEN SOURCE OS in all the variants of Linux. Sun have a phrase “the network is the computer”. There is no network OS as such. The web is made from so many different parts. There are standards of course, perhaps they are the OS, perhaps the work of W3C is in fact the precurser to a WEB OS. Google and Chrome in that context cannot be an OS, merely a browser (tempted to say window) on the net.  In that sense Chrome is an indicator of a move toward the dominance of net based computing. The net has simply outgrown the idea of an OS.Here is a cartoon strip showing Chrome features: On Mobile, things look diffrerent, the OS is still very important. Google have also released Android which is an OS for Mobile phones. Android is designed specifically to access the web. It is Linux based (in part OPEN).  Android phones and devices will access web based apps (See Android app competition winners). In that sense they are also windows (given in) on the net. (See article below - The Internet of things)

for a long time …ever since sci fi there was an idea where small objects can connect into other small objects and ultimatly into some sort of super mainframe. The example most commonly given is the bus stop that knows where the bus is…before it gets to the bus stop and displays this information on peoples info devices if they are waiting for a bus…you get the idea.

This idea could be the internet..if you extend the idea of the internet to include small devices and give them Ip addresses…which we do, of course, for phones. Then extend the idea even further and give every object an Ip address and connect it to the web then you could get to a big idea called the internet of things. Here is the link to the wiki.

Google Android is an OS for phones that is free. Many people are wondering if Android could be used as the OS that might join the Internet of things together.

Kevin Kelly talks about the internet of things in this video talk. KK is one of the founders of Wired magazine. Great stuff: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

In EyeSpyFX we have been working on another aspect of the Internet of things…interoperability. We hook up webcams, network cams, web viewing and control, phone viewing and control. Interoperability requires background architecture and much handshaking and translating between networks and devices. A free OS could help things along here. I am tempted to suggest that a universal and free OS would make the job of interoperability easier for service providers. As I think this, I also think of a fascist utopia and the problems of there just being “one”. The “one” never seems to quete make it. Microsoft gave it a good try, but then Google intervened. What next?

Nokia owners will be familar with the “Download” button in the main menu area. PhoneStreamFX is now available using this innovative content download facility.The exact content available depends on the country and the operator your phone is registered with. In most EU countries go to: Main Menu/Download/Applications/Jamster/Multimedia/PhoneStreamFX