Nokia inventors have patented glasses to notify users of incoming calls by illuminating an LED.
Photo: Nokia Patents Glasses To Detect Cell Phone Calls Photo 1
U.S. Pat. No. 6,190,227 describes, "An incoming call reporting toy that visually or au rally reports a call arrival state of a portable terminal to a person around the toy in an amusing fashion. An electromagnetic wave emitted when a portable terminal receives an incoming call is used to activate an incoming call reporting circuit incorporated in the toy body. A signal outputted from a signal controller configuring the incoming call reporting circuit drives a motor to allow the toy body to perform a predetermined operation while emitting a sound and/or light, thereby notifying a person around the toy of the arrival of the call at the portable terminal."
How can no-kia patent something like that?
I've seen anything from pendants to rings to toy-animals to stickers, that
do exactly the same, they incorporate LED(s) and in some cases, even an IC to play with the lights (order/color/etc...) when they discover a "ring". Some of them are using an embedded battery, while others (like the stickers for example), are fed using the ring frequency power.
anyone?
2. Posted by Bjoern
Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:38 pm
Well, they can combine it with a built-in bluetooth headset in the future...
Than it would be nice.
Maybe the LEDs can be personalized by the user.
There are plenty of options.
Ray Ban already has sunglasses with built-in headphone for mp3-players (and so on).
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