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Editor’s note:
We wouldn’t be at all
surprised if one the
primary uses of
mobile camera
phones was in
checking one’s own
189appearance.
Modify mobile phone and PDA screens to act as mirrors.
The backing of the display would be coated by a
photosensitive material, which would appear reflective
when an internal light was activated or an electric
current passed through it.
Alex Pressland
21 April 2001
Editor’s note:
Jay Pond-Jones
reported that, ‘I
suggested this very
same idea to a zoo
once. I also
suggested bringing in
a telecom partner to
fund it. They didn’t
190wanttoknow.It’s
Train web-cams on pets and other animals to offer
children (or adults adopting endangered animals) the
chance to monitor the objects of their affection on a
web page or on their mobile phones. Any number of
people could share access to any one animal, thereby
creating a community or club that could share
experiences and support each other if the animal fell ill
frustrating this ideas or died, as is sadly inevitable at some point.
business.’ Quite.
David Owen
22 April 2001
