Communications Technology

Forget about jumping on stage with your electric guitar, violin, or concert piano.

After all, it takes a while to tune a guitar and the amplifier is always cumbersome, and you need years of training for the violin to be able to wander up on stage and make music, and well, try carrying a concert piano around in your backpack and you may start looking for an alternative solution.

How about a cell phone?

Musicians are yes, now taking to the stage with their cellphones. Check out Bora Yoons latest piece in this video

A little technology, a little creative thinking, some fine thumb and finger work, stage and microphone…

All the ingredients to perform your latest masterpiece.

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It is refreshing when someone pulls an idea out that is so left field and distant from the normal. We are talking way outside anything even remotely resembling a ‘box’ here…but still in my opinion really good.

Ask design students what a cell device may look like in the future and the results are especially fun…

For example, one student came up with a necklace of beads idea!

Instead of exchanging phone numbers, people could exchange colorful beads that represent, well, their contact reference. Simply squeeze the bead from upon your necklace to activate a call.

All the electronics would fit inside the necklace with a wireless ring!

A communication charm bracelet thingy…

May only really be feasable if we start giving our infant babies cell capabilities, but you never know.

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Its great to see a mobile business with an understanding towards securing a user and demographic.

What is Boost Mobile?

I was not entirely sure, but what I did know was that they seemed to be associated with all the cool youth sports events. Anything Surf, Skate, Snow… and Boost Mobile is there.

They are like an underground band as far as mobile plan providers go. Grass roots and non commercial. All this adds to street credibility.

With the multitude of telco operators and mobile plan companies out there with absolutely no connection at all to their core demographic of mobile users, the Boost Mobile support of all things cool surely puts it way out in front.

Check out the Boost Loopt social mapping service. Utilising their mobile GPS enabled wireless network you can automatically update the location of your friends plus more.

Functional youth services that many could learn from…

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