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On bars, massive events, shopping malls, concerts, etc attendants can send SMS/MMS texts and photos to a large screen to show the world their thoughts and share instant pictures, short cell phone videos, etc. voting/polls for promotions, contests, feedback can be displayed to drive revenues. The product consists of 1) an All-in-one device with a large screen (LCD/plasma/projector) and an internet enabled computer, and 2) a web site that handles the incoming SMS/MMS messages. The website pulls the messages from a SMS/MMS gateway and The device constantly http-checks if any new message to display from the website. The device is placed on a public space (stand alone solution could use GPRS) constantly inviting people to send a text or multimedia messages to the screen and show them to the world. The user sends a SMS/MMS to a 555-... number and the message is displayed. Revenue comes from renting/selling the device, fees charged to the SMS/MMS sender (pay-by-cellphone), advertisment.
I thought of this idea when I was...
At one U2 concert, Bono invited people to send a SMS with their name and by doing this, donate 1 euro to a charity cause in Africa. The cost of the SMS was 1 euro. Everyone in the stadium had a cell phone and almost everyone sent the SMS message. The names of the people who sent the message were displayed on the video wall. Some people sent funny messages instead of their names and the whole stadium laughed at every funny message (and at some weird names!). This could be like instant bogging to the masses! Sharing a joke, a cell phone-made picture, a self video or event related comments could be the natural technological extension of the need to express something (think of the people with flags, spray painted banners, cardboard banners, guys with letters on their chests, funny looking people, "John 3:16" signs, etc).
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I like the example of Bono. I would probably send a message to the screen if I saw one a shopping centre/nightclub. I don't have the technical knowledge to know if there is a limitation to this idea but I like the concept.
To Kool:
The idea is prety easy to implement.
On the device side, you only need a single board computer, a reliable OS and very basic programing. The device will contact the website via http and request if any new messages to display and the website will send via plain and common http the message and posible control instructions. The device will have the LCD/plasma/projector as monitor and will display the messages (even using a navigator connected to localhost refreshing it self!)
On the website side, the website can be hosted on a shared hosting server. A contract with a SMS/MMS gateway (mobile365,Netsize,etc) provides a http access to retrive the received messages. The server http-gets the messages from the SMS/MMS gateway and stores them on a local DB for devices arround the world to fetch them. MMS messages will be converted from SMIL or other MMS format to HTML.
It would be very easy to implement this!!!
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