We want to show some of these things in an “experience video”, that shows a normal day in a couple of years when all these technologies are affordable enough to be used everywhere. This video is the result of our experiment with open innovation, read more about our experiment here. Big thanks to all the people from TAT and around the world who helped out and sometimes shared their ideas and sometimes gave us homework on our own ideas.
>Here is the storyboard for our inspirational movie, we are shooting it just now as I write this text. It goes a little something like this:
Harold wakes up and snoozes the alarm using a gesture above the phone.
He then continues to read some news in his bed.
He finds an article he likes and expands the screen to get a better reading experience and decides to share it to his friends.
Somewhere in the meantime Ana is brushing her teeth in front of her mirror. The mirror shows widgets and news.
She controls the UI on the mirror using gestures. She then finds Harolds shared article and decides to share it to her other friends as well.
At the same time Will is just arriving at work.
He sits down by his transparent screen and starts working when he sees the piece of news shared by Ana. He tells his co-worker to have a look at it. He can see it from his side of the transparent screen. Will does a quick mash-up of the news. He puts it on his phone.
He meets Harold on his lunch break, the guy who started the sharing link, and gives him the mash up while the phones are stitched together. And they lived happily ever after…
FUTURE OF DRIVING
A good discussion spurred from the hitchiking idea – especially that this application could be used within a network: friends of friends on Facebook or within a company – to increase trust.
It almost feels like the two categories FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION and SCREEN TECHNOLOGY are more and more merging into one. We’re keeping them separated on the page, but probably the end result will be an amalgamation if it will be any of these two that wins.
Mowitz wants to eliminate the tunnel effect that occurs while driving at high speed.
Neldeborn suggested using facial recognition and streaming the video to your cell so you could see if your car got nicked. Could be coupled with additional features to be a stronger case
Olof introduced the idea of sharing screens and getting control over them by using facial recognition.
Antoine and roger pirched ideas arouund expanding the screen space either by sticthcing, sharing contexts between screens or flexible size. We produced a sketch around this:
We have the most traction in the driving section (been waiting for that pun) right now on our open innovation forum. But it’s not in the lead when it comes to votes, isn’t that strange?
We are now seeing input from people trying to reach further than what happens behind the steering wheel. Concept concerning traffic jams and person-per-car density is keeping us busy.
We got a little ambitious and started to make a movie so today you we didn’t produce any sketches around the other concepts. But don’t worry, it’s on our todo list for today:
FUTURE OF DRIVING
We’ve had some discussions around parking and the problems around it. Good input and we hope to get something visual done in this area soon. So far its just whiteboard sketches:
Sensors (heartbeat) are stirring up some thoughts and must be investigated further, sensors in cars that senses the drivers and passenger are cool to think about since most applications of sensors are around making the car sense it’s surroundings.
In our project room we are also pushing for more concepts around the dashboard & peripheral devices so it was nice to see Neldeborns comments about remote access to your parking via an phone app.
FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION
We are working with the idea of “cross device handover” of a call. How can a call go from using the portability of the mobile phones to the screen size and video call possibilities of a TV? We want a smooth experience where you don’t hang up on the phone and initiate a Skype call. The thing that needs to be brainstormed is the “super cool hand over mechanism”.
Click the picture to see the movie on flickr:
Holographic displays are now in the mix thanks to Jeremias. Here is a video for you who discard it as sci fi, boyaka, it’s here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFMxUqxOaBs
FUTURE OF SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Screen technology is now in the lead if we count the votes, but the second day we haven’t seen any creative input. So we are hoping for more ideas on how we will use screens and what they will be able to do in the future.
Yesterday morning we opened up or innovation process in an experiment to see if we could make user feedback earlier in the process improve the results with our way of working with innovation. Summing up the first days concepts:
With the wind screen potentially being one big screen there are plenty of things we could improve. One idea was to block out the light from meeting cars (using an eye tracker) so that you wouldn’t be blinded but still could see the approaching car:
Using the windows (side screens in our example) to show tourist info would guide you through the city (the front screen could show you the street name):
And with a pico projector in a mobile we could have all these ideas in an app:
