idea:: Interactive Radio Broadcast (IRB)

IRB:

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part1:the_listener

What if…you (extended or) attached a FM receiver to a handheld PC/smart phone/in-car navigation system/… with a soft J2ME interface (for API to “listener”) into the device’s local browser?

the_listener can be built.

part2:the_space

This part consists of an existing technology in use in many of today’s vehicles and home media centers. Realize it or not — but there is additional information being transmitted in FM broadcasts which allows your receiver to display textual information about the current radio channel.

the_space exists.

part3:the_connection

Leveraging an existing mobile communications network for an always-on connection to the internet with a decent amount of bandwidth is now a reality.

the_connection exists.

part4:the_system

If we were to utilize (and expand upon) just the_space as a place to provide encoded states which could be intercepted and decoded by the_listener as requests for certain mediums via standard URI states…Then the device’s local browser would become slave to the broadcast and would display extra information (ie. pictures & video) on cue’s embedded in the station’s FM broadcast.

Effectively the_system would allow for listeners of standard FM broadcasts through existing (or upgraded) personal/mobile media devices to not only hear the broadcast but to also see and interact with the information presented by the broadcast.

Get it?

Even as an off-shoot, the ability to generate radio listener demographics at a resolution previously unavailable to the radio broadcast industry is…quite…quite interesting.

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