Innovation

Open Innovation Day #2

By:Marcus Ericsson  Posted in:Innovation

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:

We found some cool concepts on cars that park them self:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGuSRuSunjo

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.

If you don’t like to read (but somehow made it this far) you can go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatmobileui/ for our output in picture format.

Open Innovation Day #1

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By:Marcus Ericsson  Posted in:Innovation

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:
This has so far been a fairly dormant subject.
E-ink desks would give us a lot of interesting info:
and the possibility to sync devices or to send devices between them more tangible:
Also here augmented reality of course quickly became a topic (with Petit Invention’s classic example):
Another topic that was discussed was to improve the feedback from screens, to be able to feel buttons before you press them.