As some people know, and many don’t, I got accepted into Nokia’s N810 device program, which means I get this wonderful piece of technology* for a wonderful price.
* Sentence may be biased, due to cheap-tablet-buyingness.
This means I really, really feel like developing something for the device, and so I present my newest idea: HeThEv.
Short for “HereThereEverywhere” (yes, my naming is as useless as ever), it’s basically a program that exploits the ease with which the devices can now know where you are in space - with the N810’s built-in GPS, or an external receiver with the N800/770.
The idea is to have a geospatial memory environment (woo, buzzwords). Essentially, you can write down notes, and the program will remember where they were written, and at what time. So, if you remember jotting down something in the pub last tuesday, it’s trivial to locate the item.
What about alarms? Set the device to tell you what food you need to buy next time you go past a supermarket, and as you walk past it’ll remind you.
Perhaps the feature I want to implement (and try!) most is the “located music”, where you associate music tracks with locations and times. So, if you’re walking down streets at night, have edgy, scary music; if you’re in a park during the summer, have typical summer music; walk past a football ground and hear their anthem; there’s lots of possibilities, and it will also make real life more like movies, although I have yet to think of how to play ‘danger’ music when a fight breaks out…
So, hopefully that’ll turn up at some point soon, shortly after Nokia actually get around to shipping devices (*cough*).
3 Responses to “HeThEv”
1 Sid 18 November 2007, 10:39 pm
That sounds pretty interesting. Makes me want to try it out
2 anon 10 December 2007, 1:25 pm
Interesting idea, but you’d need a way of classifying locations prior to the making of the note (either as you walk past them, or off a map, perhaps). That way you could make a note at home / in the office to remember to do something the next time you are close to that space - you would just assign the note to the space and the device would remind you to perform the task next time you were there.
3 Eelco 11 March 2008, 4:05 pm
Brilliant, sounds like it got potential. Much more than playing OpenTTD anyway
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