YES! Now I don’t have to scalp tickets for the next soccer game. All I have to do is download this application for my mobile and I will have the game right at my fingertips. David Beckham, I am watching your every move.

Experience soccer games through your cell phone vibration. The cell phone is synchronized with a soccer ball. Different vibrations are used to portray individual plays. One can just be walking around campus and follow a World Cup game. Audio and textual updates on the soccer game can also be received through the use of the cell phone. Participants of a study on this new innovation positively responded to the live game information. The technology is being developed by a team of researchers consisting of Shafiq ur Réhman, Li Liu, and Haibo Li, all from Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden, along with Jiong Sun from Ericsson Research in Stockholm. The group’s study on their experiments and user tests will appear in an upcoming issue of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Click here to read more.

By Meredith Meyer