Article / 18th Nov 2007

HeThEv

As some people know, and many don't, I got accepted into Nokia's N810 device program, which means I get this wonderful piece of technology* for a wonderful price.

* Sentence may be biased, due to cheap-tablet-buyingness.

This means I really, really feel like developing something for the device, and so I present my newest idea: HeThEv.

Short for "HereThereEverywhere" (yes, my naming is as useless as ever), it's basically a program that exploits the ease with which the devices can now know where you are in space - with the N810's built-in GPS, or an external receiver with the N800/770.

The idea is to have a geospatial memory environment (woo, buzzwords). Essentially, you can write down notes, and the program will remember where they were written, and at what time. So, if you remember jotting down something in the pub last tuesday, it's trivial to locate the item.

What about alarms? Set the device to tell you what food you need to buy next time you go past a supermarket, and as you walk past it'll remind you.

Perhaps the feature I want to implement (and try!) most is the "located music", where you associate music tracks with locations and times. So, if you're walking down streets at night, have edgy, scary music; if you're in a park during the summer, have typical summer music; walk past a football ground and hear their anthem; there's lots of possibilities, and it will also make real life more like movies, although I have yet to think of how to play 'danger' music when a fight breaks out...

So, hopefully that'll turn up at some point soon, shortly after Nokia actually get around to shipping devices (*cough*).