Mobile Industry Review » Minority Report http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:46:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Minority Report-style online mobile shopping from 3 Sweden http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2011/04/minority-report-style-online-mobile-shopping-from-3-sweden.html http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2011/04/minority-report-style-online-mobile-shopping-from-3-sweden.html#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:26:05 +0000 Ewan http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/?p=21345 Can you imagine shopping for your phone like this? Play the video and see what you think. For a long, long time I’ve maintained that this kind of online concierge is required by mobile retailers.

3 from B-Reel & B-Reel Films on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2011/04/minority-report-style-online-mobile-shopping-from-3-sweden.html/feed 3 James Whatley goes all Tom Cruise with Minority Report gloves on his PC http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/07/james_whatley_goes_all_tom_cruise_with_minority_report_gloves_on_his_pc.html http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/07/james_whatley_goes_all_tom_cruise_with_minority_report_gloves_on_his_pc.html#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:16:37 +0000 Ewan http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=7569 Oh to be Tom Cruise in Minority Report, eh?

Oh, to walk up to your transparent 18ft wide screens, pull on your special gloves and start arsing about with screens and information with just your hands.

That’s more or less what Mr Whatley did this weekend. With the aid of a soldering iron and some sticky tape.

If you’d like to get jiggy, he and colleague Richard have produced a video:

]]> http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/07/james_whatley_goes_all_tom_cruise_with_minority_report_gloves_on_his_pc.html/feed 7 Is the ‘Minority Report’ world becoming a reality with Screenreach? http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/07/is_the_minority_report_world_becoming_a_reality_with_screenreach.html http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/07/is_the_minority_report_world_becoming_a_reality_with_screenreach.html#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:47:38 +0000 Patrick http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=7066 It was interesting that Ewan was using a reference to the film Minority Report to emphasise his latest rant about the industry. At about the same time Ewan was ranting I was chatting to Paul Rawlings the CEO of Screenreach – a company that may just be bringing Minority Report to life.

Unfortunately Screenreach doesn’t work with pre-cogs to detect crimes before they have happened. I don’t mean that bit of Minority Report. I mean the scene where Tom Cruise walks into a shop and all the screens recognise him and display personal messages just for him. That is what Screenreach can offer … or something similar.

I’m going to be doing a fuller piece on Screenreach soon, but basically the company offers information and content that can be sent to screens – primarily plasma screens in retail environments, but also mobiles. The content they provide can be personalised either by recognising you as an individual – for example the screen can ‘see’ you via bluetooth – or by amalgamating group information from sources such as recent till transactions.

It all sounds interesting and I’ll be doing more soon.

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