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Today 6/2001 until olympics 6/2006

6 months of project research

24 months of treads for sevices / technology

24 months of service development

48 months of hardware development

12 months of BETA testing

present idea at SMAU 2003
Present Project at SMAU 2004
In use for SMAU 2005
On Sale for SMAU 2005
Work with proceeding Olypmpic events for beta

involve
- MLE
If the project were to be research and developed in agreement with the Media - Lab Europe, the imediate resources open to the project would give the project a strong start.

- Swatch / Motorola
A hardware partner would be needed. I mention Swatch because they are the official timekeepers for the Olympics and may find the project in itself interesting.

- TIM / UNI TIM
It would be useful for both parties to set and agreement for service research.

- Piemonte / Torino
Getting the community or province involved with help us to network with the city's and province's needs.

- Zagat / TimeOut / Access
a guide to the area will be indispensable. what is around me will blume with a guide structure applied. a customer recommendation system would help people know what they where getting involved with for dinner.

- Crossplatform
It makes the project open to more clients, but it may not be possible but these are all thoughts which will need to be rethought a few times with the change of technology over the next few years. Below is a list for today, but the list maybe completely different in the future.

- Our device
- palm pilot
- 3G
- WAP
- HTML

Technology
Since there is no standards yet for devices, it will be important to follow the trends for a while before starting to make a choice. Therefore technology mentioned is a point of reference as to which technologies we should follow.

Communication near and far
- Near
Today people and objects are communicating at shorter distances, but yet not by cable, but through the ether. also there are times when we need someone in your area to deal with a certain task, there are also times when you would like to pass information. Some will want to play games, chat and communicate at short distances.

- Far
There will always be someone somewhere that will have information you need and high speed lines will help to make any form of media accessible. Also if the phone is a sort of dumb terminal, and everything lays on the server side, band width could be also be used for transfer of processes letting the application run on the other side and send just the wanted information.

locator (GPS)
- Where am I?
More importantly what is around me? This is usually the next question after where am I? This technology will be an important aspect to developing services.

- Where must I go?
Since your device knows where you are and where you need to go, it can draw you a route. One could follow it or not, but the device will warn you when you are head away from your goal. At which point the device could be programmed tell you which way to go. If one wants to stand on their own, one can make it into an adventure and if one feels lost at some point, one can ask the device and be sure to get the right directions.

Services
What will be important to this project is services and their user interface. Services over the next few years will develop and a darwinistic envolution in interface will emerge. Following the trends on online, cellulare, land line services we can direct and focus. An instesting point of reference is 89 24 24.

- Position
When we are in a place which we don't know there is always the question how do I get there from here. Sometime more importantly is where is here. At the moment one can use mappe.virgilio.it to find a point on a given street. in the past the site had the added function of how to get from point A to point B. In this primative version of the service one could get directions but, the road direction was never accounted for. This makes it hard if you are a driver. In the case of Torino and the Olympics, people will most likely be on foot or with public transportation. mappe helps us to get an edge up on the research, but there is also the side of Private transportation, which we will need to address.

This Service is a vital part to the day being duing such a confusing event. The Service is also a test bed for a standard UNITIM Service.

- calendar
During the Olympics, people will want to coordinate which events one would want to go to and where they are and the possibility to make it to each event. The calander can be used to organize meetings with others in a large group or family members. The calander could contain other events in Torino so that people could also visit a bit of the cultural side of the city.

In other situations the calander system could easily become a sort of mobile assisant, which could be sold off to large companys to help develop systems of efficiency.

- Resturants
As if finding a resturant for diner isn't hard usually, imagine what it will be like when the city is over flowing with people. Also imagine not knowing much about the town. A newtork of resturants could work with us to make available a certain number of tables dedicated to people organizing via our system.knowing where you are one can bring up a list of tables in the area, maybe even a short menu. A voting system could be developed with the Zagats or someone else.

The service could easlily be transfers to an everyday service, or even a spinoff company.

- Messaging
In Italy messaging is a very important form of communication. At an event like olympics messaging is a useful to for people to communicate and for the event to communicate with the invitees.

- Taxi
one button order system. Due to gps they know where you are and needs to just send the verifing number for the taxi. Since taxis will be in great use during the events, and taxis are vonerable to attacks, there could be a payment system to protect them from robbery, on the other side of the coin the distance, time, and cost would be registard so the client could feel safe that he or she is not being cheated.

time line of portable objects

date of birth for each protable object and a vague number of how many are around today.