While wandering around the "International" wing of this year's CES, we stumbled upon a number of questionable (and familiar) items. One line of products that stood out, however, was a company offering a modular solution for adding GSM capability to a wide variety of devices. Using what appears to be a proprietary type of connector, the SIM-ready card can imbue an assortment of gadgets (phone, e-book reader, GPS... teddy bear) with GSM functionality. It's unclear whether this technology is being deployed overseas (or at all), and whether or not we'll see it Stateside (doubtful), but it does take a novel approach to cell-ing up your gear.
posted Jan 11th 2008 5:24PM
gsm teddy bear? sign me up!
How is this novel? You guys are idiots (like making fun of McIntosh in another post). GSM and CDMA modules have been around since the 90s!
name one consumer device in the US that uses one?
Off the top of my head, I can think of Onstar, smart vending machines, laptops, wireless credit card systems, some of the original Pocket PC phones. They all used modules as opposed integrated radio/baseband/antenna systems. How do I know? I used to work for a company that made modules.
Yep. A common example is the Siemens line of GPRS and EDGE units (MC35, MC55/56) but there are lots more.
Sounds very similar to the Japanese Willcom W-SIM...
Please give us a clue who this company is!
This is an interesting device...
The company is Group Sense Limited.
https://myces.bdmetrics.com/Portal/ViewCompany.aspx?id=4101182
http://www.gsl.com.hk/eng/index.asp
iTeddy?
haha so I can use the teddy bear as my gsm phone?
It's looks like W-SIM module.
W-SIM -> http://www.wcmf.jp/wsim/index.html (Japanese)
Hey lets shove this up a Teddy Bears A$$!