October 5, 2008
Next-gen DoCoMo phones predict your every move
Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile carrier is working on new technology for its next generation mobile phones that will quite literally predict your every move. Their next gen phones will be stuffed full of senors that will be able to identify the movement that you're making. Mobile mentalism reports.
"Based on your actions you make when you move in a particular way (all of which the phone records via its sensors), sophisticated software will predict what your next actions wil be and will provide recommendations in advance. In other words, the phone will attempt to guess what you're doing, and the predict what you're about to do, which sounds just a little bit freaky if it works too well!
The work is part of Japan's "Information Grand Voyage" research project, in which they're trying to capitalize on the untapped data that can be harnessed through a world of sensors. Japan recognizes that Google effectively owns the Web's information, and so cannot compete with existing digital info."
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