At this year’s CeBIT 2008, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories presented a selection of innovative projects to the public. The world’s largest fair for information and communications technology took place from 4th to 9th March 2008, in Hanover.

Under the motto “Your world of tomorrow” Deutsche Telekom’s research & development institute, together with its partners, offered a glimpse into the digital worlds of life and work in the future. On stand B65 in the future parc, the centre for innovations in hall 9, the following exhibits were presented:

• Ambient Life – The living mobile phone: Status shown by emulating signs of life.
• Beta-Plattform: A platform for research on the future of the Internet.
• Cargobike: No soot, no fine particulates, no CO2 emissions.
• Daidalos: Seamless mobile communication.
• ePAIR: Electronic identity card for identification and registration in the Internet.
• Helios – Open Development: Easy integration of services into your own web pages and applications.
• MediaScout – It knows you: Watch TV more intelligently, better target advertising.
• Memo: Towards automated usability evaluation using Mental Models.
• Mobile Music Making: Making music with wireless mobile devices.
• NetCentric Security: Network-based protection from attack.
• PebbleBox: Sounds affect our perception of the world.
• Zimory: Dynamic and flexible computing centre resources.

Other Telekom Laboratories exhibits included: 

• AvatarClip: Animated greeting cards with avatars (hall 26, stand A01, T-Home, betabuzz)
• SerCHo: The intelligent home network of tomorrow. (future parc, stand A25, next generation media)
• MAMS: In future, develop individual services, easily and intuitively. (future parc, stand B40, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - the German Ministry for Education and Research)

On 4th March, Deutsche Telekom and Laboratories presentations were also on the programme in future talk (hall 9, stand A30). At the opening event “Smart staff for innovation – a first interim summary of IKT-2020”, amongst others, Christopher Schläffer, Group Product & Innovation Officer for Deutsche Telekom took part. Four presentations from Telekom Laboratories then followed:

• Optimising business processes through the use of an innovative office solution, Hermann Hartenthaler
• From Buses to Mobile Phones: Transferring knowledge in design, Dr. Rosan Chow (in English)
• Uses of an electronic identity card in eGovernment and eCommerce, Dr. Georg Wambach
• Adaptive IT infrastructure to trade in global computing centre capacity, Dr. Behrend Freese

In hall 26, Deutsche Telekom presented solutions for today´s networked life and work. Under the motto “Your world” everything on stand A01 revolved around telecommunication, high-speed Internet and Internet-based applications - for the home, when out and about, and at work.