Top Secret Zumba Mobile Phone Exposed
IA Technology, a UK company known to develop ejector seats and other protection equipment for the military, invited a camera crew from the BBC in to its “top secret” facility where 40 employees were shown working away on likewise top secret technologies. The crew was there to get the scoop on what IA Technology is calling “the world’s first truly hands-free mobile phone.”
Watch the BBC video report where the reporter details the top secret mobile phone. She says she can’t show us how it works (that part is still a secret) but she can tell us about it.”
The device is called the Zumba, and the Hereford-based technology company believes it will fully revolutionize the mobile industry.
According to the IA site, “Zumba connects people by fusing the worlds of telephony and web-based networking, and presents a potent combination of consumer benefits with true mass-market potential.”
The hands-free design for the Zumba is based around what IA calls the “world’s first fully accurate voice recognition system for mobile phones.” The device is the size of a credit card with an earpiece that pops off to fit over your ear.
To place calls or send a text, one simply touches a button on the earpiece, which calls up a secure website portal – called Zumba Lumba (seriously, that is what they are calling it) – where your contacts are listed and allows you to place the call or text using only your voice to navigate. According to the IA site, “ZumbaLumba is a ‘Natural Connections’ website that taps into our real life circle of contacts held on our phones and allows us to interact with them in new and purposeful ways. It allows users to manage their contacts, availability and communication, whilst enabling closer connections. ZumbaLumba ‘Natural Connections’ brings the virtual world of networking into the real world of connecting to solve real problems that affect all of us.”
