Hey! Stop changing the channel with your phone!

An entry from Keitai Log on how Japanese teenagers use the infrared device of their keita - mostly as a remote control to change TV channels.

"Infrared communication is contributing even more to the immersion of keitai into our daily lives. In the morning, we wake up with an alarm built into our keitai. We make phone calls or send e-mails and data during the day. Then at night, we go to bed and turn off the TV with our keitai, leave it on the bedside table, and sleep. This remote control function might have come from the basic concept of keitai (which actually means "portable" in Japanese). It's all about bringing it anywhere we go."

emily | 10:49 AM | Trends |
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