Polaris: Phone Meets Robot

Flower Robotics has unveiled a prototype for a new digital lifestyle device that seeks to enhance the mobile phone experience, in part by linking it to the TV. Doubling as a charger, Polaris compiles information gleaned from the phone, such as minutes talked, kilometers walked, and purchases made over the internet. From this collected database, the spherical device makes suggestions and offers presumably relevant information to the user. It also serves as a link to the user’s TV, so recommended information, as well as mobile-based TV programs and large data files, can be viewed on a big screen.

More than just a smart phone device, Flower Robotics is positioning Polaris as a robot companion, one that responds in an active and animated fashion to human behavior. With its simple design, a sphere that opens partially (like a flower) to allow the phone to rest inside, Polaris is intended to sit next to the TV. Flower Robotics is developing the product with KDDI as part of AU’s Iida series.

The current generation of smart phones still requires the user to be in direct connection with the handset. Polaris gives us a hands-free vision of things to come in addition to demonstrating how two of our most important information portals—the mobile and the TV—can work together.

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