SMSwave

Tuesday a world primer took place of a massive smswave during the Europecup basketball match in Amsterdam of the Demon Astronauts against the French Strassbourg.

Attendants of this match sent an sms message with their chair number to a central computer that activitated all the cellulars in series to imitate the wave effect in sound and light flash. SMSwave took a full year of preparations and was technically and in organizational terms successful.

The idea is patented and was developed by UpHill Battle innovation partnership in Amsterdam. An ‘SMS wave club' will follow. The organizers will also rollout an international version of this concept.

[Translated by Gerrit Visser for Smart Mobs ]

Related articles on various forms of wave messaging:

-- SMS Messages in the Air - Sun Data, a handset accessory company, announced it developed AirBeam that can display SMS or image stored in handsets in the air using LED. (December 2004).

-- Wave Messaging - By waving the Nokia 3220 camera phone from side to side, the LED lights of the Nokia Xpress-on FunShell light up to "write" a message that appears to float in mid-air (May 2004).

-- In March 2003, the WSJ reported from CeBIT about a phone called Kurv, made by Kyocera Wireless Corp which featured airtexting: "The company believes airtexting will be one of it's most popular features, especialy in night clubs. To airtext, you type in a text like 'call me' then wave it back and forth in the air. As the phone moves, a row of blinking red lights along the top of the phone leaves the phrase trailing behind it."

-- A company called Wildseed actually tested airtexting with teenagers - which was a big hit. cf post in Textually on airtexting.

-- And an article from Wap.com (no longer online) several years ago, featured a California company called Neoku.com which developed a platform called haikuhaiku. The article described a form of mobile graffiti, using a cell phone as a paint spraycan, "by waving it into the air to form a word, the text would appear onto the screen of a person passing by".

Audio interview explaining smswave

emily | 9:46 PM | Technology |
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