DoCoMo's directional cellphones

By Peter Rojas

Japan's NTT DoCoMo is working on cellphones that'll use GPS to convey a sense of the
direction from which the person on the other end of the phone is speaking to you. Like if they somewhere
to the east of you and you were facing north, it would seem as if their voice was coming from your
right. Yeah, we thought it sounded totally useless at first, too, but there are a few practical
applications for it, making it easier to distinguish between people in a conference call or finding
another person in a crowded public place ("Just go in the direction of my voice!"). How they're gonna get
simulated surround sound out of a cellphone speaker is beyond us, but we're sure they'll figure it out.

[Via MobileTracker]

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