Synchronicity is a wonderful thing, innit. Me and m’good buddy were talking about future phones the other night, after seeing the Xperia Pureness, with its translucent display, and we both agreed that the future would be phones stamped directly onto our eyeballs. A bit extreme, you may think.
But then, today, I saw this concept video from Nokia, and whilst the phone isn’t directly laser-welded onto her retina (and, granted, she’s also got an N97 as the main phone), it is embedded in her glasses…
Essentially, it takes augmented reality to a whole new level, and projects things like her texts and music player onto the glasses. And then, it gets all sci-fi, because she controls the selection of things like music to play by moving her eyes. The glasses can ‘sense’ what she’s looking at, and move the menu selector highlight thing there. Nokia call it Mixed Reality, although, to be fair, given the presence of the Nokia N97 in that video, it looks more like a clever accessory than an actual ‘phone built into a pair of glasses’ to me.
And I still reckon it won’t take off. People like having a phone they can hold, and touch, and, most importantly (this is human nature, after all), show off to their mates.
Oh come on, everyone does it. You know everyone does it. I did it with my X1, my mate did it with his HTC Touch Pro2. Everyone does it…
Still, it’s an intriguing concept for an accessory, so we’ll have to wait and see how this one plays out…
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