Nokia has been struggling to keep up with innovations in the smart-phone sphere.
David Pogue put it well in his sprawling, and not entirely correct, analysis of what lies ahead for the search engine's Tablet front, "Nexus phone, Nexus tablet, Nexus sphere thing; what is Google thinking, anyway?
"Your phone is a private sphere of substance, just like your bedroom".
Astronauts then attached the phones to the Spheres, giving them more visual and sensing capabilities.
There is very good reason to be concerned about the government's interpretation of its police powers, especially given the Obama administration's insensitivity to privacy in its mass collection of phone data in the national security sphere.
With an Android phone, users can also make Photo Spheres just by waving their devices around.
Instead of just letting those photo spheres languish on your phone or on your Google+ account, though, Google has thought up something awfully keen for them.
In Baltimore, Cullen Nawalkowsky, a protester, said by phone that the point was a "public sphere not mediated by commodities or mainstream political discourse".
Each sphere is synced up to a phone app that encourages a more interactive experience and allows for choreographed performance.
Once at the space station and attached to the Spheres, the phones will use their onboard motion-tracking cameras and infrared depth sensors to safely navigate around the ISS.
Kitty Preziosi and I connected on LinkedIn, followed up by phone and found our outrageously high energy levels and spheres of interest were a good match for each other.
