At the eighth Long Night of Science, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories again presented a selection of innovative projects to the public. The smartest night of the year took place on June 14th 2008, from 5 in the afternoon till 1 in the morning in Berlin and Potsdam.

Together with its partner, the DAI Laboratory, Deutsche Telekom’s research & development institute offered an insight into digital life and work of the future. In the Telefunken Tower on Ernst-Reuter-Platz, a total of about 900 interested visitors could take a look at the researcher’s work. The following exhibits were presented:

• Ambient Life – The living cell phone 
• Detecting anomalies in cell phones – Defense from viruses and other attacks
• The office of the future – Efficient and flexible infrastructure for knowledge workers
• Cargobike - No soot, no fine particulates, no CO2 emissions
• Compass 2008 - An electronic companion in foreign cultures 
• GestAvatar – Communication via agents in the network
• Mobile Music Making – Making music with your mobile wireless unit
• Multimodal MediaScout – Search for media content intuitively and multimodally
• News4Me – Receive personalized electronic newspapers wherever you are
• Smart Health Assistant – Stay fit and healthy
• Smart Home Energy Assistant – Save energy with your intelligent household helper 
• Smart Personal Assistant – The easy way to plan your free time 
• Smart Telephony – Make interactive calls using multimedia
• SPREE – Direct conversation with experts
• SunSPOTs – Ping-pong in cyberspace
• Superdistribution 2.0 – Safely distribute content that you produced yourself within communities
• Telepresence – Far apart and yet in the same room
• Usability Testing – Evaluating the quality of video and TV transmissions 
• Four Star Cooking Assistant – Your digital helper in the kitchen
• Virtual City Guide – Identifying objects and locations with a cell phone
• Virtual Cocktail Party – Spatially locate participants in telephone conferences
• Wave Field Synthesis – Experience virtual acoustic space

An overview of all of the exhibits is available as a download (in German).