Symbian is counting down to something, question is what? Yesterday, there was a solitary tweet from the official Symbian account that simply said – ‘#symbiancountdown 108′. This was followed by a tweet that said, ‘ #symbiancountdown 61′ and by another that said ‘#symbiancountdown 49′ just over six hours ago.
Apart from this we have had a few clues flow in from Symbian employees on twitter, but they seem pretty random to the unsuspecting eye. Earlier today, there was a tweet by Shaun Phillips of the Symbian Foundation that said,” ok so #ipad was disappointing but #symbiancountdown won’t be” which leads me believe that the foundation is indeed panning something special.
The problem is that the clues and the countdown is so cryptic that its virtually impossible to guess what is going to happen. However, I get the feeling that something is going to be announced soon. If you have an idea, let us know! Follow #symbiancountdown for clues.
Fresh from the labs of the folks at the Nokia Research Center came an awesome new demo called ‘Mobile Radar’, this was essentially a modded Nokia N95 that could measure an object’s distance, speed, and direction all without coming into contact with it.
The above video showcases just two of its awesome use cases, first researcher Jani Ollikainen use his hand to adjust the music player’s volume, despite the presence of an object in his way. Next, researchers Terhi Rautiainen and Risto Kaunisto measure the distance, speed, and direction of a human walking all with the Nokia N95.
As the folks at Nokia Conversations point out, you shouldn’t get your hopes up of seeing this technology in your next Nokia as some of the projects from the NRC do not even make it out of the labs, but this is surely something we’d like to see our devices to. Possible use cases? Gaming? Security? What not!