One of the biggest launches at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the I-open; an app which allows you to open your front door by just twisting your phone as if it was a door handle. ‘This is breakthrough technology’, said marketing manager Chris Davies, ‘the phone’s action even works with a gloved hand which is a big advantage when compared to the friction deficit presented by traditional door handles if used with gloves, mittens and greasy hands from chip-eating. This feature alone should make it a must buy for anyone who opens doors, whether professionally or as just part of their life skills set.’
Also set to be a big seller this year is the must have ‘comb app’ which uses directed static electricity to move hair into desired position by simply moving your phone back and forth across the head. Other apps on show include the ‘stinger app’ which automatically counts wasp density in pub gardens allowing users to select indoor or outdoor dining, the gap app which measures and directs you through doors accurately to minimise collision and the Wideload-app which warns you with a humorous ‘fat alert’ if an obese person is nearby to prevent ‘pavement interfacing’ or accidental inhalation of sweat molecules.
The app which is causing the biggest sensation at this year’s show bristles with multimodal capability and radical user function. Put simply, the app when asked to perform any simple task, calculates whether this could be done more quickly and easily by the phone owner and switches itself off if this is the case, thereby saving valuable battery power and ultimately the planet’s diminishing resources. Chris Davies however was dismissive and thinks this is a niche seller likely only to appeal to what he calls ‘econuts and retrofreaks’.
‘What’s the point of technology if it can’t do something useful?’ he asked via his mobile laser display board.
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offlineMemberPosted 2 months ago # -
Sinnick
offlineMemberReally like this. Get it right & it's the sort of thing that could go viral.
I agree, the title needs a boost. Maybe a reference to 5G technology ?
The examples are fantastic. The imagination runs riot with all sorts of household & personal healthcare examples. One that comes to me is an App: shout "FOOD" at it and a Pizza is delivered.
Arguably trails off a little at the end; could finish off with reference to it also being a phone ?
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SteveCut
offlineMemberThis is excellent. Very clever and funny too.
Maybe you could incorporate something about mobile phone technology showing signs that the technological singularity is almost upon us? Then the headline could be something like "Mobile phones: first technology to achieve superintelligence?" But maybe that's a different story?
I also think Sinnick's shout FOOD app could be commercially viable.
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Sinnick
offlineMemberSC, yours seems to be a slightly different theme, but when you write your sub why not say something about the phone's intelligence exceeding it's owner's ?
The Ed likes to leave a decent gap between stories with similar themes, unless they're hot topics (like the Pope). Plenty of time then.
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offlineMemberThanks for the feedback - does need a better title and ending that's for sure.
The paragraphing is terrible and I feel I've let myself down, I've let my family down, I've let my old English teacher - Mrs Phantom down and more importantly but irrelevantly, I've let my tyres down.
Lessons, of course, have been learned and I could chuck all this timewasting in for the Vatican City job but unfortunately I've just passed a CRB check.
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Very good. And there’s nothing wrong with the headline.
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