NTT DoCoMo – World’s Largest Wireless Internet Provider

M.H.M — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:45:57 +0000

Have you ever wondered who is the largest wireless internet provider? According to Guinness World Records, the title goes to the Japan’s company called NTT Docomo. NTT Docomo Inc. is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, “do communications over the mobile network“, and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning “everywhere” in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone (FOMA and Some PHS), i-mode (internet), and mail (i-mode mail, Short Mail, and SMS) services. The company has its headquarters in the Sanno Park Tower, Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.

As of January 2006, NTT DoCoMo (Japan) has become the world’s largest wireless internet provider, with 45,687,117 subscribers to their i-mode service. Yes you hear it right, it is almost 46 million subscribers and the number is more than enough to establish a country!

Being one of the world’s leading in wireless internet provider, here I show you some of their interesting ad and commercial:

1. Discount Bar code

Basically its a bar code where you can take a photo of it on your phone and once you do it would automatically take you to the companies website on your phone. Its pretty cool if you think about it.

2. Hologram Technology

As being said by one of the video watcher, “Wow don’t it make ya proud of technology, we actually have holograms. Sci-Fi here we come. Wonder what there will be in 50 years time if we aint killed outselves“.

MIT Holographic Monitor

M.H.M — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:51:44 +0000

The MIT Holographic monitor is a 3-D images that floats in space. This system creates a 3-D hologram that pops out of the screen, showing the picture from hundreds of angles to provide a convincing sense of depth. The first sets will probably display videogames or animation because they are easier to render in three dimensions than is live action, which requires dozens of cameras to capture the necessary visual data.

How it Works?

First, the display converts the video signal into electricity that it uses to stimulate a slice of lithium niobate crystale, which produces sound waves in response to the current. These waves then diffract lasers through the crystal, turning them into hundreds of slices of light. That light travels through two mirrors that project it at various angles onto a screen, where the slices stack up on either side of the display to create a 3-D hologram.

The production of the holographic monitor will be estimated only later in 2012. However, the price is still unknown.

Resource: MIT.edu

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NTT DoCoMo – World’s Largest Wireless Internet Provider

MIT Holographic Monitor