Droid Sensors, Mobile Sensors

Nokia’s “Sensor Backpacks” For Mobile Devices

“Imagine a person with armor, and all kinds of sensors around them, so that we can start programming whatever gestures we want.” Source: link

iBAC alcometer

The iBAC  -  an alcometer (a small breathalyser unit connected to the mobile device using Bluetooth), a phone application and a web site for tracking the readings of multiple users. It can be useful for transport or other businesses that need their employees to be alcohol-free on the job. More info & purchase: link

Radar from Nokia in your pocket?

The mad scientists at Nokia Research Center are always brewing up something that let’s us peak behind the curtain of future mobile technologies(sensors etc). Some concoctions make it into our mobile phones, while others never make it outside the NRC building in Helsinki. “Mobile Radar” is definitely one I’d like to see in my handset sooner rather than later. In the video shown below, you’ll see researcher Jani Ollikainen use his hand to adjust the music player’s volume, without ever tou...

Nokia Eco Sensor Concept

To meet Nokia's  future vision, the Nokia Research Center supported by Nokia designers conceived the Nokia Eco Sensor Concept.  Nokia's visionary design concept is a mobile phone and compatible sensing device that will help you stay connected to your friends and loved ones, as well as to your health and local environment. The concept The concept consists of two parts – a wearable sensor unit which can sense and analyze your environment, health, and local weather conditions, and a dedicat...

NANO Sensors’s Future from Nokia

Future from Nokia