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Glowing phone transmits your mood

13 May 2009

DO YOU find it tough getting across precisely how you are feeling in the confines of a 160-character text message? Your emoticons just not cutting it? Then Nokia of Finland may be coming to your rescue. Last week, the company filed a patent on a new breed of cellphone capable of “light messaging”.

The idea is that when you send a text, the phone’s software lets you choose a colour that represents your mood – red for raging angry, perhaps, blue for sad, or yellow for mellow. That colour is then encoded with your message and is used to illuminate…

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