Johnnie Walker Blue Label whiskey is the world's first smart spirit. The best-selling brand of Scotch whiskey with more than 150 years of tradition merged with the company Thin Film Electronics ASA from Norway, with which they did not mix nanoparticles or anything similar into the "water of life", the intervention was only in the label, which now features NFC contactless technology. This transmits data to the user's smartphone, and it was tried for the first time at the mobile congress MWC 2015.
China's ZTE, unlike most other smartphone providers, approached biometric identification differently. Not by taking fingerprints, but by "scanning" the eyes, as he installed the EyeVerify scanner in his new Grand S3 smartphone. This does not "scan" the iris, but the blood vessels, as they are without a pair and do not change with age and stress. For one of the most secure ways of identification, we use the front camera.
Forget the telescopic selfie stick, here is the Podo, a camera that attaches to any hard surface (wood, concrete, glass,...) with the help of a magnet or a suction cup, a spark (read the link) between it and and turn on Bluetooth with your smartphone. You can capture images, videos and time-lapse videos with it, and you can even back it on Kickstarter.
After debuting at CES the year before last year, the Instrument 1 is now moving into homes after meeting its Kickstarter goal in less than six hours. The basic, plastic version of the instrument will thus be available for around 310 euros, while the wooden version will be significantly more expensive - 810 euros. Which is still cheap when you think about how much a guitar, piano, violin and bass combined would hit our wallets. But the Instrument 1 can sound quite different, as it can be connected to the iPhone family and a PC.
The smart lock may not be a completely new coinage, namely fingerprint (biometric technology) and contactless card locks could already be called smart locks, but the only real ones are those like Sesame from Kickstarter, which work in connection with a smartphone. But the big advantage of the Sesame lock compared to the others is that the use, and above all the installation, is a task for a child.
Forget smart watches, the watch that will really fascinate you in 2015 is the HYT H3, a hydromechanical watch where nothing is hidden from view, as you can observe the entire "production process" of time measurement through the glass. Without manual winding, the watch lasts for 170 hours (approx. 7 days) and has two built-in bellows that pump a phosphorescent liquid that travels on the beat of the second hand. Truly something the world has never seen before.
Monohm has brought some fresh pizzazz to the smartphone- and wristwatch-saturated WMC 2015 mobile conference with the Runcible smartphone as a pocket watch. You probably still remember pocket watches, which used to be pulled out of our pockets almost as often as we do with smartphones today. Well, Runcibl's mission is to discourage us from excessive phone use, and in the battle with all the wearable technology like smartwatches and bracelets that hope to do the same, it faces an uphill battle to survive.
It is typical for the MWC 2015 "holiday" of mobile telephony that each participant brings his new "goodies" and at Sony it is the Xperia Tablet Z4 Android tablet. It is incredibly thin (6.1 mm) and light (389 g*) and to the taste of everyone looking for Apple and Samsung quality, packaged under a different brand. With its 10.1-inch 2K (qHD) screen and powerful hardware, it definitely threw down the gauntlet to the tablet elite and expanded the choice for demanding users.
HTC primarily came to the MWC 2015 conference in Barcelona to show off its most powerful phone, the HTC One M9, but in its shadow, the cute smart bracelet (or fitness tracker) HTC Grip, which will be welcomed especially by athletes, has also seen the light of day. it is capable of tracking and recording activities when running, cycling, in fitness training,... Water does not bother it, as it is waterproof, so no training conditions can survive it. Well, except maybe the swimmers.
Whiplr is an app that connects people with sexual fetishes and "kinky" ideas, which they browse within a discreet and anonymous app for a personal Fifty Shades of Gray experience.
At the mobile conference MWC 2015, Microsoft's mobile universal keyboard, which is only half a year old, got a foldable version, which is equally intended for devices with the Windows operating system and mobile operating systems Android or iOS, and it has now added the missing Windows Phone OS to its list. Spill-resistant, durable, quickly adaptable, and above all, small, foldable and as thin as an empty men's wallet, it is an indispensable companion for a smartphone or tablet.
The Lenovo VIBE Shot has definitively blurred the line between a digital compact camera and a smartphone, as it gives you the best of both worlds. When it's a camera, it doesn't disappoint with a six-element lens camera that captures scenes at a resolution of 16 million pixels, but when it's a smartphone, it doesn't disappoint with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and a high-resolution display.