My backpack is filled with a laptop, smartphone, hand-held wide-screen media player, an extra laptop battery, a high-quality digital camcorder, a digital camera, voice recognition software and a headset.
"Sir…" Turning, expecting to be informed of my situation's slim chances by someone in authority, I was totally astonished to see a lovely woman, with an elegant black dress and her smartphone, handing a MetroCard to me and, as if reading my mind, saying that there wasn't anywhere to buy them close by.
Turning, expecting to be informed of my situation's slim chances by someone in authority, I was astonished to see a lovely woman, with an elegant black dress and her smartphone, handing a MetroCard to me and, as if reading my mind, saying that there wasn't anywhere close by to buy them.
That's not to say that behaviour and bedtimes were trouble-free before smartphones – hands up if you ever got told off for reading under the duvet with a torch – but it does mean they're facing an unfamiliar issue.
On a bright Saturday morning earlier this month, about thirty people gathered inside a large, dimly lit warehouse in Chelsea, hunched over smartphones, hand-drawn maps, and computer-networking equipment.
On a bright Saturday morning earlier this month, about thirty people gathered inside a large, dimly lit warehouse in Chelsea, hunched over smartphones, hand-drawn maps,… Before Edward Snowden sparked a global debate about government surveillance, it was a fact of life for Tadesse Kersmo.
During the experiment, various data was collected from 1,000 smartphones handed out to students of the Danish Technical University.
I am specifically avoiding AR apps for head mounted displays, as HMDs open a whole new range of possibilities for products that aren't possible on a smartphone (hands-free apps, longer session times and much deeper immersion potential for starters.
Players walk the streets, smartphone in hand, in search of Pokémon, whose presence is betrayed by a haptic buzz.
Or, according to Kewal Shienmar, you could just type "97.N7" into an app and navigate straight there, smartphone in hand.
So perhaps you start by agreeing to buy the cheapest smartphone or handing down your old one.
