Bump your iphone
Colleague Mike Anderson has introduced me to this great iPhone app. Bump allows you to share contact details with other iphone (or itouch) applications by literally just bumping your phone with someone who has bump.
BumpTM makes swapping contact information as simple as bumping two phones together. No typing, no searching a list for the
right person, no shaking your phone, no modem noises, no mistakes.
Contact information is saved directly into your address book. Perfect for business or personal use.
1) Open BumpTM on both phones
2) While holding the phones, gently bump your hands together
3) Confirm the exchange
Features:
- Compatibility: Works across any type of internet connection (3G, EDGE, WiFi) on iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch (and soon many other devices)
- Security: No one can see any of your information (not even your name) until you physically bump hands with them
- Flexibility: Select the information you want to share directly from the home screen
- Speed: Exchange contact information error-free in less than 10 seconds
David Lieb and Jake Mintz, first year students at the U of C’s Booth School of Business, along with friend Andy Huibers in California, started a company last fall to develop products based on the technology. All three are former Texas Instruments employees.The self-funded company is named, not surprisingly, Bump Technologies.
Lieb explained how the technology works: “It monitors the accelerometers in the two phones and a smart matching algorithm running in the cloud is able to match up any two phones in the world that bump each other.”
For further information and a demo check out the video below
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Glad you liked Bump. Hope you are doing lots of bumping.
It is an interesting meshing of technology and real human interaction. I think that is why it is embraced by so many people. I could easily email you my vcard but feels so much better when I Bump it to you.