Text-to-speech in a phone
Yes, I know Hinkmond is supposed to do all of the wireless stories, but I haven't seen him mention this one. Curitel has has just released this two Megapixel TTS Phone in Korea that has speech synthesis built into it. The idea is that when you receive text message, not only can you read it but you can hear it as well. Now, I'm not sure what the target demographic is for this ... it could be for users who are driving, or perhaps for those that can't read. (?!) Anyway, the phone is only availabile now in Korea, but a deal with Verizon may be in the works, so something like this may be in the USA before too long. So I guess that is something else we have to look forward to hearing while sitting in a movie theater, or the concert hall or church or wherever.