The End is Nigh - for the Mobile Phone

Professor Nigel Linge from the UK's University of Salford is predicting that the mobile phone as we know it will have died out within the next five years, reports Cellular News. The future, he says is mobile computing with, ultimately, wearable parts to replace traditional handsets.

''Instead of mobile phones, in five years we will all carry mobile computers on us. So, for example, the communicator on our collar might send signals to the keyboard on our sleeve. Already we are seeing simple everyday objects with communications systems called 'tags' built into them.''

Image left to illustrate this post, from Interactivearchitecture on The Future of Wearable Computing (2005).

For the latest on wearable computing, click here on we-make-money-not-art.com's ''Wearable'' category.
11/15/2006 1:49:52 PM
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