Mobile ReiÃleine triggers alarm.

Phones are the successor of the whistle as an instrument of self-defense: A Samsung model with Reißleine creates infernal noise and simultaneously informed the police. Following the same principle now also networked mobile alarm systems.

 

The whistle is not only at railway stations and sports grounds a classic, but also as an instrument of passive self-defense. For people who fear that they are just at the critical moment the breath runs out, there are now technically upgraded alternatives to whistle: For example, the
"Tiny Personal Guard Alarm", the line for less than $ 10 to acquire.

Samsung phone with Reißleine: Infernal Noise

The unit is barely bigger than its mechanical predecessors and can be exactly like the whistle around the neck worn. And that creates inconspicuous gadget, with a SPL of 120 decibels in an emergency truly infernal noise. To trigger it's merely a small Reißleine draw - then it is appropriate to their ears zuzuhalten. Nearby you can in any case already sound pressure level from 100 decibels as an extremely unpleasant perceived.

Handy with Reißleine

The alarm function to be integrated into the mobile phone, it seems obvious, at the same time opens up the networking of the devices entirely new responses. So sound the alarm of the currently presented
Samsung SPH-W7100 model, although "only" at 100 decibels. But that comes with the triggering of an alarm, a text message to a number of the police generated. The SMS to the law enforcement includes the emergency and the location data from the phones, the GPS module of the SPH-W7100 delivers.

In South Korea Samsung phone marketed as the ideal companion for children and women. The device is not the first mobile phone with alarm function, but the first with a Reißleine: The previously available models, the alarm by pressing a button is triggered, which in one frantic panic situations in Fummelei may degenerate, but the probability of false alarms increases. Currently, the SPH-W7100 is only available in South Korea, Samsung already has the green light by the U.S. approval authority for marketing in the U.S..

Mobile Alarm

And the consistent further development of the networked alarm phones already exists: if mobile devices at the same time raise the alarm and SOS messages to mobiles can sell, then the mobile is also conceivable alarm. The result is then
"Yeti" and should make all possible mobile assets from unauthorized access. This is the quietschgelbe device the size of a tool kit initially equipped with sensors, the user, depending on the situation can be activated.

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The alarm will be triggered when the infrared sensor movement in space perception, or by an acceleration sensor, which anschlägt even if Yeti is moved or when the microphone is recording a loud noise. The alarm itself consists of three elements, the user individually or in combination can be chosen: in addition to the siren of 120 decibels and a flashlight Yeti effect can also be sent by Bluetooth with a mobile phone connected. From this is then in case of alarm via SMS or a call to programmed numbers generated.

Telephone inventors invent the pill doses phone.

The intelligent Pillendose monitored the intake of drugs, mobile phones analyzed the breath of the user: as designers are the future of the mobile front. The cell phone as a personal physician and trouser pockets Big Brother.

 

The mobile industry is looking for the next big application for mobile. A New Hope: medical services and health care. Hope this is being driven by the combination of smart sensors and intelligent networking.

Pill doses prototype: The draft of a pill doses phones on the Yanko Design site

The developers are as follows: cell phones could constantly take the pulse of heart attack risk and monitor irregularities in the family doctor via SMS circumspect. According to this principle should be about the future by Dement GPS navigation controls: If an Alzheimer's patient aimlessly through the streets of moves will be alerted and the supervisor led to the patient.

The system was the beginning of the year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where the "
Pill Phone "was to be admired: The mobile phone is reminiscent of the ingestion of drugs and warns in case of doubt, prior interactions.

But currently available systems, only a small foretaste of the mobile's Health: How has the Australian designer Steven Grech already consistent successor the "Pill Phone" developed in his "
The Capshell "manned the draft gets Pillendose even a mobile phone connection to the proper administration of medications to ensure. The system works similarly to the famous of PEZ candy dispensers. However meticulously registered the device, whether the pills to the scheduled time taken from the donor were. Whether the patient actually swallows it, the unit can not be recorded.

By mobile phone, the data is automatically stored in the patient record stored and in critical cases, the supervising doctor alerted. Should it even be manufactured in series, would be networked Pillendose physicians valuable information and could thus avoid treatment errors.

That progress is possible, however, massive privacy concerns. To feel even the magazine "Yanko Design" promptly to George Orwell's vision surveillance "1984" is reminiscent, although usually only the aesthetic quality of the drafts will be discussed.

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One step further is the vision of the British company Applied Nanodetectors (AND). At the fair "
Nano Tech 2009 "in Japan, the company presented a prototype of a mobile phone, the breath of the user monitored. This is made possible through a supposedly new sensor, the traces of all possible gases in the breath detected. The ratio of nitrogen oxides, ammonia, carbon dioxide and other substances could then include all sorts of diseases.

The sensor will also detect whether and how much alcohol the mobile user has consumed, or simply warn against halitosis can. Opposite "
Nikkei Electronics, "said a company spokesman AND that now with cell phone manufacturers and mobile on possible areas of application for the Super Sensor verhandele.

Street lamps get cell phone connection.

Worldwide, numerous pilot projects, the use of LEDs in street tested. In San Francisco and Carinthia lanterns get even a single phone connection - in addition to light also emit traffic information.

 

"For street lights have begun an exciting time," quoted the New York Times recently, the spokesman of a major U.S. energy utility. In connection with street lighting does the attribute "exciting", of course, once strange.

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Street lamp: Is it smart, if that light communicated?

But the statement by the Pacific Gas and Electric employee is not meant ironically. Visions of future "intelligent" street have really cyclical, and this going to be really exciting ideas.

The street is, for example, the constant current traffic situation and thereby adjust highly efficiently be controlled by motion sensors could be any pedestrians and any car a suitable light beam follow the same token, empty road sections only very sparsely lit. Special events such as an accident could be announced by colored lights, while the accident site itself is very brightly lit. For a number lanterns could be something like a display of the road are. In addition to their basic function as a light source, the lighting varied information, such as by color, light intensity, or flashing signals.

Everything LED

Background light of the new fantasies is the first widely expected conversion of streetlights to LEDs. Because after the "Light Emitting Diodes" long time on a tight color were limited and no light intensity were great, they are now well on its way to the universal light source. And among other things, is used worldwide in numerous pilot projects, the use of LEDs as a lighting test.

For the first technique speaks the comparatively long lifetime of the LEDs of up to 50,000 hours and the high efficiency, with the LEDs convert electricity into light. The biggest hurdle for LEDs as a light source under which the comparatively high production costs. But this is under light technicians generally optimistic: "We are convinced that the LED lighting of the future also in the public street is: Compared to current lighting LEDs have great economic and environmental benefits", said in December about Professor Tran Quoc Khanh of the TU Darmstadt on the occasion of a local pilot project.

Lantern with telephone

From the general euphoria LED sting two projects, which are not described on the economic and environmental opportunities are limited. So was the dictum of the "exciting times" for lanterns at a conference in San Francisco, including the management of street lighting has been demonstrated via mobile. The idea is that the LED potentials through a full network of each street lamp can be achieved.

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In addition to San Francisco will soon lanterns in Austria, a mobile control receive. You want T-Mobile Austria, together with the Dutch bulb producers Lioris in Klagenfurt LED street lamps with SIM cards equipped. The companies want in the next few months, the "precise control of lighting via mobile testing, but also concepts such as congestion warning by" flashing colors ". Whether the drivers are informed about it or just confused, remains to be seen.

The great power poker.

The announcement of the mobile industry, by 2012 Micro-USB as the standard for the power of mobile phones introduce, is to be regarded with skepticism. In the past the industry has mainly played on time, in order to protect lucrative business.

 

A few days ago, the mobile industry, announced that they were to produce a
Single Charger for all mobile phones have agreed. From 2012 to mobile phones via the mini-USB connector as power supply, said the GSM Association (GSMA), in which almost all large companies in the mobile industry are represented.

For the consumer first by the sounds of a joyful message: The format of chaos in the chargers is annoying and costly - in case of loss must be so special charger for the phone to his own questionable prices to buy.

In addition, the manufacturer of the adapter unit, but also save costs. And as the environment will also benefit because much less e-waste could occur, even if cell phones are sold without power supply.

According euphoric were the comments of industry representatives. So said Robert Chvatal, T-Mobile boss in Austria to a "win-win-win situation." Problem solved, everyone involved will benefit and so is the issue closed? Unfortunately no, because if the mobile phone industry in the power supply issue in the normal way works, you have the GSMA announcement, unfortunately, very different interpretations. The pessimistic view is then more loudly praised the industry better, the less it has to really effective measures.

The precedent

What at first sounds absurd, it is the example of the roaming charges clearly explained. The tariffs for mobile calls of the EU were already in the 90 years a thorn in the eye. But the promised improvement in mobile and could the EU Commission in 1998 for such a scheme without coercion win. Three years later suggested Competition Commissioner Mario Monti, then alarm: When roaming to find virtually no competition. Now will the EU Commission on.

Indeed it took the telecom industry was still six more years, which infuriated EU politicians to appease - and this time with roaming charges fantastic profit margins to realize. Only 2007 were actually fee caps for mobile phone calls within the European Union. The strategy consisted of Telkos in this case primarily to goodwill and providing it to win time.

New Game

The parallels between roaming and chargers standard are obvious. In both cases, it is an extremely lucrative and safe business. International calls were also before the charges by limiting the EU, whether on holiday or on business trips. And on the purchase of a new power supply, no one does, just because the prices are disproportionately high. In both cases there is an increase of products made by consumers in certain extent be regarded as indispensable.

And there are other parallels. So-called EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen, just days before the GSMA announcement, a standard for power supplies. Just like Mario Monti Verheugen 2001 threatened the industry with sanctions if they do not even care for a standard. Against this background it is the promise of resolving the problem by 2012 as a conciliatory measure well understood, with the intervention of the policy should be delayed.

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This is also that since 2007 the plan is, mini-USB the standard for the mobile power to make. At the time, announced the industry forum OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform), whose main members are also in the GSMA found that mobile phone cabling to simplify radically. And just this one and a half years since the existing plan was now run by the GSMA once proclaimed as a major breakthrough.

In addition, the GSMA schedule is anything but authentic and industry is also still a loophole open holds: By 2012, only to be "the majority of all new mobile phones" via Micro-USB socket to come. What remains is to hope that the EU mobile phone manufacturers obliged her rather vague promise also observed. That authoritarian politics in the case of mobile phone chargers to be successful, China has already demonstrated. There were manufacturers in 2006 to the default committed since June 2007, only units with Micro-USB connector as a unit to be sold.

Mobile phone reception on the world's oceans.

The Irish company Blue Ocean Wireless provides seafarers worldwide mobile reception at a reasonable price. This is on the ships a GSM base station installed in a miniature format, the satellite is connected to the Internet.

 

That is as good as anywhere in the world mobile phone reception, there is now a matter of course. The fact that the mobile networks in truth but in a large part of the Earth's surface, yet are not available, it is hardly noticeable because it is very sparsely populated or uninhabited areas acting world. These include of course the oceans, however, should no longer remain mobile with the Irish company
Blue Ocean Wireless, there is now a mobile phone in the world oceans.

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Container ship, who commutes between continents, is often over weeks of each truncated normal telecommunications

Target Blue Ocean, the crew of cargo ships. This had been on the high seas on the telephone contact with their families forgo, or in an emergency on expensive satellite phones back. Blue Ocean on the other hand, promises this target now regular GSM reception, for the use of no special phones are needed.

Floating cells

Of course, Blue Ocean does not receive GSM coverage at all world's oceans provide. But that is not even necessary, because the potential mobile customers not swim individually by the oceans. The service is limited to the vessels of the maritime mobile, each with its own GSM base station equipment. While these will also have a satellite connection to the global telephone networks. Telephone calls and text messages are, however, before the transfer in space-saving IP-transformed data.

In the mobile radio cells that are on the ships are used, it is called Pico-cells of the manufacturer ip.access. These generate close a GSM network and over the Internet with the global mobile networks. With such a pico-cells is also the mobile phone reception on board of aircraft possible. Similar devices are also available for private users, for example, in her apartment a cost-saving mobile network to operate. The latter, however, mostly as femto cells called ( "pico" means a trillionth, "Femto" a trillionth).

Internet and container tracking

To use the services of Blue Ocean to use the sailors a SIM card of the acquiring company. Exact prices for calls and SMS were not yet known, but these should be international roaming prices in accordance with the GSM network. It is clear, however, that all the world's oceans at a uniform tariff will apply to seafarers which a substantial improvement.

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Blue Ocean offers naturally of course, other wireless services on an IP basis to the installed Pico-cells to be used optimally. This includes an e-mail service, but no general Web access because this is the narrow-band satellite connectivity would overburden. Internet services will soon be submitted for other providers to offer: The global Iridium satellite telephone service.

Twitter messages via SMS.

In the strange world of the micro-blogging service Twitter Americans were previously a bit more equal than the rest of the world: they received their news via SMS appetizers. This is now also in Europe - as an advertising-financed services.

 

What the Manufacturer
Twe2 the offer has provided, on which it runs piggyback, is primarily one thing: a business model. For so far are estimated to benefit about six million people worldwide service Twitter, income that the company did not. There is no paid advertising, there are not, the money demand is so far from venture capital investments in dispute. Eventually somehow be the growing popularity of the service be turned into sales.

Twe2: The service is a Twitter-free ride of success - and offers Twitter users in Europe is a service they directly do not get Twitter

As the theory would be possible now displays the service Twe2. The Twitter also offers users outside the U.S. is now an SMS forwarding service. This will be refinanced through advertising messages to the Twitter messages are appended - the mobile phone becomes a device for receiving SMS ads. For this to work, you must Twe2 the way, not only his Twitter ID and a telephone number given, but his Twitter password.

The operators promise to so Schindluder not want to drive, at least show user-friendly, in terms of privacy is largely free of pain are calm like.

The technical infrastructure behind Twe2 is not. Use the servers of the UK hosting melbourne and the interfaces of the SMS Free SMS provider Wadja. Basically do not happen more than that Twe2 an interface between the service and Wadja Twitter established: With access to the Twitter accounts of registered users there are the incoming messages to pass Wadja and "versimsen.

SMS service for the whole rest of the world

However, the operator made a lot. Not only Germany and the rest of Europe is on the list of countries already served, but many more in Asia, the Caribbean, South America and Africa. That looks pretty completely, but is continuously expanded. Already there are Natiönchen, the more letters in the names as Twitter users have expected.

Anyway: In Europe, the attractiveness of the service, Twitter service increase significantly. If it works, deserves, if not Twitter itself, or at least someone else even a little money with it.

Mobile phones, which can be more.

A mobile phone as a camcorder? A mobile phone, the internet pages loading before you ansurft? All this and more can be found on the mobile phone Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. Matthias Kremp herausgepickt has the highlights.

 

The success came through camouflage. As the developer of the Taiwanese mobile manufacturer HTC Windows Mobile OS devices will send their surface überstülpten were to Asian phones to Megasellern. The less Windows was to be seen, the better they could sell. No wonder then that the company improve its optical now even lower in the Windows Mobile-anchored and the Microsoft system, far below buries.

This is what happened when new phone models, Touch and Touch Diamond 2 per 2, which is now even less likely than their predecessors a look at Windows disclose - and even better to operate via touch screen should be. Although Microsoft itself has already
an update for Windows Mobile announced in the finger control to be improved, but that will not be ready before summer.

In addition to the Windows substructure to hide, HTC also has some basic characteristics of user interface changes. This was especially the handling of messages and contacts revised. So should we now of the digital business card of a person whose entire starting communication with a self-retrieve them. So one can immediately see which messages can be mutually by mail or text message, who has called whom when - and how long.

Internet via on-demand subscription

In an interview with blogs ONLINE HTC says marketing chief John Wang, however, another invention of the Taiwanese to the milestone of mobile data usage: push Internet. The new technology, according to Wang to ensure that the mobile web, despite the often sluggish mobile data is fun.

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The basic principle is simple: The user defines in advance the websites he regularly reads and these are defined by the mobile phone then in freely definable intervals on the device. Such sites are anticipated retrieved on immediately and without waiting to read available.

It is not clear yet what impact this push Internet function (which actually a pull-function) on the charge of the battery will have. At about the iPhone is clearly observed that the battery much more quickly empties if push services are enabled. Similarly, it could be the HTC-made phones, since they, before and after the consultation stages have no chance in a deep, power-saving hibernation mode.

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