Las llamadas tecnologías de proximidad -Near Field Communication (NFC), RFID, Bluetooth, Wibree, etc- están llamadas a jugar un papel fundamental en Internet Móvil. Muchas compañías ya están usándolas con fines publicitarios y existen muchas empresas especializadas en explotarlas para ofrecer campañas de marketing de proximidad a grandes marcas que están interesadas en desarrollar innovadoras formas de comunicación con sus clientes.

No word on how much it'll cost you if you buy it direct from the source, although our previous post suggests a ¥5,000 ($43) price point

You can install it into any vehicle by simply attaching it to the windshield and then just start driving.

GyPSy Guide allows you to travel at your own pace, visit the places you want to see. The tour commentary has been built by a team of accredited, professional tour guides so you will learn much more than a single tour guide would be able to share with you. Think of it as a local friend, who will share interesting stories and entertain you along the way.

Sensing a “place,” our devices deliver narration, music, archival audio, sound effects -- even video, photos and maps -- that bring the place alive.

Travel by GPS™ tour guides are self-guided, GPS-enabled sightseeing adventures that include media rich audio narration and visual representation.

Travel by GPS tour guide content complies with Garmin® TourGuide™ standards, is provided in Garmin GPI file format and can be used with compatible GPS navigation units. Other file formats are available by request.

What is Garmin TourGuide™? With the latest POI Loader software, third-party developers can create and load special Garmin TourGuide POIs, which turn your compatible Garmin unit into your own personal, electronic tour guide. These POIs have an audio file associated with them. When you pass by a TourGuide POI with your compatible Garmin unit, the TourGuide audio file begins playing automatically. Garmin TourGuide has so many different applications: you can use it for bus tours, hotels, rentals, real estate sales — the possibilities are endless!

he Camineo Guide is the tireless travelling companion which reveals the richness of your area. Portable and small, it is the same size as a Pocket PC or last generation mobile phone (smartphone).Multimedia and interactive, it incorporates texts and pictures to arouse the curiosity, videos to show the sights, detailed maps, 2D and 3D animations to reconstruct what has been demolished or lost, audio commentary to excite your imagination, games and riddles so that you will not get bored…Thanks to its GPS, this astute device delivers information when and where you need it.

they've developed the augmented reality (AR) headset, a set of goggles which could be used by police officers to 'verify license information and do background checks against a variety of databases.' But don't worry, the GVL team also wants to offer these technologies to people like you and me.

magine taking a first-time business trip to Shanghai and quickly finding your way as though you’d lived there for years. Further imagine conveniently seeing directions at the same time you’re navigating the streets or instantly locating friends and family anywhere in the world, from the largest cities to the most rural countryside.

A blog by Fabien Girardin used for his Ph.D. thesis on collaboration in the context of mobile and ubiquitous environments

collecting and finding stuff seems to be a recurent pattern in game-design; both in video games but also in pervasive games in which collection has been used to make people wander around in the physical environment (promising potential virtues like… meeting new people or discovering new places; unfortunately this failed but that’s another story). The reason why I am blogging this is that I am always wondering about how to go beyond collecting (I’m tired of collective treasure hunts in location-based games), there must be a more original paradigm.

un sistema que permite armar un album multimedia con las imágenes, videos o sonidos que uno toma con el teléfono, además de texto, que puede formar un blog, al que ahora le agregaron mayor funcionalidad.

permite agregar etiquetas sonoras a las imágenes (un agregado casi obvio), y que ahora combina los datos con el calendario y con la posición geográfica que toma de las antenas, por lo que de forma automática se etiquetan los contenidos por lugar o fecha, combinandolo además con los mensajes, permitiendo armar algo como una línea del tiempo personal, y poder encontrar fácilmente los contenidos. Útil para olvidadizos o noches agitadas.

Insectopia is a new kind of cell phone game where the real world spills into the game world. Players roam the cityscape searching for and catching a multitude of different insects. Each insects in the game world is generated by using the available bluetooth devices available in the player's vincinity. By catching insects and trading them with other players, players build their own collection bigger and better. The current status of the game is displayed on various highscore lists both in the phones and online.