Every single year that goes by, more and more people are born.  While all these births are taking place, people are growing up, growing older, getting into cars and congesting the crap out of American highways.  Point is, we’re all getting a heck of a lot more mobile, but how mobile we can be also depends a lot on how much we can avoid the pitfalls of all these new people…namely, Traffic.

I just read an awesome article about two giants teaming up to hopefully do something about just this problem.  According to the article, Nokia and UC Berkeley are teaming up to test real-time GPS traffic monitoring to see if the active displaying of where the traffic is, can help people avoid it, and thereby reduce it in general.  Basically what they found out was, if as little as 5% of drivers contributed location data from their cars, the entire thing would be a success and this monitoring could be extremely effective on any particular highway.  Groovy.

So what do we need to do to make this happen?  What do we need to do to get as many cars as possible equipped with this so all of us can eventually completely avoid traffic whenever possible?  You’d think with all the advances in modern technology we’ve already enjoyed, we’d be able to completely avoid traffic altogether.  Guess not, but hey, how awesome is it to have Hannah Montana delivered to every possible mobile device?!  Yeah, no.

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Man, could I have managed to manually manipulate any more words with the letter “M” in that title?!  I think not.  Nevertheless, I digress.  I just read a cool article about something that should make the lives of Mobile Warriors around the country yet again easier.  First comes the Pizza with a Text message, now comes even easier mobile shopping.  Where does it end?!

That’s right, mShopper is aiming to make all things mobile shopping a lot easier for you, your friends and anyone else who has ever wanted to, or actually purchased something via their cell phone.  According to the article I just read at MobileCrunch, the mShopper application helps by:

“…providing prices and specs on thousands of products in real time. Up-to-date information in changes can be easily accessed…the mShopper search engine allows you to find a product with as few as two or three characters. For example, if a shopper is interested in a Panasonic HDTV, typing “pan” and “hdt” would result in a hit. If a search results in too many hits, additional descriptions can be added to narrow the field. This feature helps when shopping for something in a certain color or size.”\

Not too bad at all.  Combine this technology with Bluetooth ad’s and we’re talking 21st century stuff.  Combine all That with a MoGo Headset and you’re really in luck as shopping, browsing, listening and participating in the mobile world gets easier every day.

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