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...Fathammer Private company based in Helsinki, Finland CEO: Brian Bruning What it does: Enables 3-D graphic games from PCs and gaming consoles to be played on current and future mobile devices Why it is hot: Much of the future of interactive entertainment will be wireless. Fathammer's technology will lead to the introduction of graphics-rich games and its new CEO, well known in the gaming industry, is already courting big- name partners such as Intel and Nokia www.fathammer.com...
...versatility. A few years ago it pioneered the DCS (Digital Camera Station), which lets users make prints of photos taken with their digital camera. It also lets them upload images onto the Internet, freeing up digital camera memory for more picture taking. Customers can download the images onto their PCs when they get home. Last month, Omron upgraded the machines, allowing customers to download music from a satellite transmission system. These features cost about the same as a couple of soft drinks. Omron spokesman Osamu Harasawa envisions a DCS terminal that can electronically dispense movies or books onto PDAs...
Whether a technology catches on with consumers depends on social conditions. For Americans, the gateway (no pun intended) to a connected world is the personal computer. PCs make sense for Americans, with their big houses. It's easy to hide that unlovely box of tricks somewhere out of sight--and use it in peace and quiet. But many Europeans and Japanese live in cramped apartments. For them, a PC not only overwhelms the living room, it also offers no privacy. Mobile phones, by contrast, are unobtrusive, as well as being a liberating way (especially for teenagers) to connect with friends...
...this has relevance to the future of the high-tech industry. It's become conventional wisdom that soon more consumers worldwide will access the Internet by mobile phones than by PCs. Well, maybe. But in the U.S., the world's richest market, some of the most popular applications of Internet technology seem singularly unsuited to a mobile phone, even when the much heralded third-generation phones are in common use. A phone's display is never going to be big enough to handle the rich displays of text and graphics of the American news and financial-services sites. And dare...
...sleek good looks and 256-color screen of a high-end Palm. It weighs just 6 oz. and is about 5 in. long. There is no keypad, though, so you will have to dial with a stylus or by voice. It will be available in August through Sprint PCS...