11/12/2008

Welcome to the Future NOW

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Sprint has a really interesting new site to promote it's mobile broadband offering.  It's called "Sprint NOW" and it is a futuristic personal information / news dashboard made of a screen full of cool visual widgets giving you a snapshot of our World now.

There's a broad range of widgets showing, for example, the current National Debt, email sent , forests cut down, energy usage across the globe, new cases of malaria, today's top Google searches and Youtube videos.

When I first saw it, I imagined this being projected up on a huge digital display in my home similar to a scene from "The Island", "Minority Report" or "Ironman".  I imagine myself going up to the display and customizing the data simply using my hands.

There's no hard sell from Sprint - just that soothing synthetic female voice telling you the current time, a stunning glimpse of how diverse and interesting our world is and how this diverse information can be presented in real-time NOW.  

Kudos to our friends at Goodby, Silverstein!

David Feldt

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Comments (4)

David:
"When I first saw it, I imagined this being projected up on a huge digital display in my home similar to a scene from "The Island", "Minority Report" or "Ironman". I imagine myself going up to the display and customizing the data simply using my hands."

In Helsinki, CityWall lets you do that:
http://citywall.org/

todd:

So many things you can do with that. Very cool.

I didn't like the actual widget since I didn't see that it could be customized. It was, frankly, a little lame in comparison.

Is this the greatest invention of the recent years? Or just an average way of getting more people to use Sprint over its competitors? We shall find out when the people speak

It's the vision of the future that I liked. The fact that soon we'd be able to have a personal dashboard like this with real-time data.

Yes, I agree it would be great if we could customize the widgets.

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