The Weekend Guide

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Jury Hahn’s Thesis Project MegaPhone is featured in this month’s Wired Magazine: Making Cell Phone Games a Public Spectacle

Next time you’re in Times Square, put on your game face. You may be able to challenge the weirdos around you to a videogame on MTV’s big-screen billboard. The controller? Your cell phone.

ITP’s end of semester show and thesis presentations are coming up! Thesis week runs from May 5th through May 9th and features more than 100 great projects. The show will take place on May 12th and 13th and is always a great time. Come one come all!

Mobile related projects in the show
Mobile related thesis projects

General information on the show
Thesis presentation schedule and projects

Tim Stutts recent Mobeat Cellphone Drum Machine! application was just featured in the Mobile Processing Exhibition space. Congrats Tim!

ITP is participating in the Forum Nokia Mobile Innovation Competition 2008 for University Students!

If you are student at ITP and developing a mobile application, you are highly encouraged to enter.. Do it quick though, the entry deadline is March 18th April 18th! See the link above for details..

Fred Benenson’s great Interactive Telephony Project, CommitteeCaller.com was just featured on BoingBoing. Here’s hoping our Asterisk server can handle the load of people wanting to talk to Congress. Congratulations Fred!




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The ITP Winter Show is coming up quick. There are quite a few great projects that are either entirely mobile or have significant mobile components. I put up a category to feature them: 2007 ITP Winter Show Mobile Projects.

The show will be running on Sunday, December 16 from 2-6 PM and Monday, December 17 from 5-9 PM.

For more, check this page: ITP Winter Show 2007

Megaphone, a great project which came out of our Redial: Interactive Telephony course has been shown and used at a bunch of events recently. It was at Wired NextFest 2007, it powered a game at the Palm Centro launch party at club Stereo in New York and was presented at the Manchester Urban Screens conference.

You can learn more about Megaphone at http://www.playmegaphone.com.

Meanwhile, here is a video from NextFest

Greg Beliczynski’s thesis project, iPLATEu, a social platform for motorists just won Digium’s “Most Unique” Innovation Award.

Congratulations Greg!

Most Unique:
iPLATEu, selected for inventing the first-ever social platform for motorists using anonymous, mobile-to-mobile voice messaging through license plate numbers. Created by developer Greg Beliczynski as a thesis project for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, the iPLATEu hotline (888-iPLATEu) employs a hands-free, IVR menu system so that motorists can “plate” each other while driving safely with both hands behind the wheel.