“The software could prove a boon for seated events when friends are not able to sit together but want to chat about the on-field action,” The Beeb reports. “It could also help them include fans and friends who did not manage to get tickets to a match.”
“Foundational work for the project involved research students travelling to football matches with fans to see what they did when supporting their team,” The Beeb reports.
MacDailyNews Take: If they’re anything like us, beer curls mainly.
The Beeb continues, “The researchers are working with the Tartan Army – fans who travel round the world following local Scottish football teams and the national side. Some Tartan Army fans have been given Apple iPhones fitted with prototypes of the software Dr Matthew Chalmers, a reader in computer science at the University of Glasgow and principal investigator on the ‘smart stadium’ project, and his co-workers are developing.”
The Beeb reports, “The researchers plan to release the software as a free mobile application so that anyone can use it.”
Full article here.
I expect there will soon be good money to be made selling iPhone socks in Royal Stewart Plaid.
I understand that each unit will also have comprehensive video content of the last 30 years of Scottish footballing success.
In other news, Apple has announced a special batch of 2GB iPhones…
And the winner for headline I’ve read over 3 times and still can’t make heads or tails of goes to…
@db
“Tartan Army” is a cultural reference to Scottish football [soccer] supporters in general. Scots traditionally wearing tartan, etc.
And in another correction, from MDN’s take: alcohol is not sold or allowed in English/Scottish football grounds.
Doesn’t stop Scottish football supporters from getting smashed before the game though…
The next logical step is to sell smart iPhone cases/Jackets that light up in a particular colour depending on the message that is percolating so that fans can identify if the message they are getting is similar to the one that their friends are getting, for example, iPhone jackets will light up in a mexican wave depending on the message and how fast it is being picked up by neighbouring iPhones.
When there are no messages from the match, the Cases/Jackets will default to the colour/s of the owners club with the club symbol set in the middle of the back of the iPhone.
Anyone interested in buying said Cases/Jackets can order one from this site following this thread. Limited offer for the length of this thread.
Ps. Who let me out of the asylum??????
Drinking beer!? At a football match!? In England!!!???
There’s already an App for that.
@ LateRegistrant
Wallace is much smarter. The Wallace hunting plaid is beautiful camouflage.
I’m in favor of any software and devices that allow hooligans to communicate more effectively. Nothing is more distressing that arriving at the wrong time or at the wrong place for some vigorous anarchism, misdemeanors, and general social misbehavior.
Good grief, keep this off the sozzled grips of the Barmy Armies.
@ MCCFR
Genius! And I’m from Glasgow….
I always thought the Tartan army were the Spartans who survived the Battle of Thermopylae.
Do beer curls help you work off your beer gut or is it the other way around?
Great. Just what we need. As if it wasn’t bad enough listening to bores on the train, now we’ll have to listen to “Hi, it’s me. I’m at the game”.
This way, anytime something exciting happens in a soccer match, they’ll be able to notify each other immediately.
Estimates are that the iPhones will not be turned on until the game’s over.
Will bring a whole new dimension to “You’ll Never Walk Alone”
Now, Gentlemen, behave yourselves for The Good of The Game
Don’t bring out the “arbiter” in me, and the Cards, understand ?
Have no desire to fill out Paperwork for any Send Offs
So, do not get a Celts -v- Rangers thing going here, ok ?
(well, maybe a little bit, help MDN sell more tickets, like Mac -v- PC?)
Got to say it’s nice to see so many Cousins here from across the Pond
Please make sure you fully explain (ty, HueyLong) to the MDN Locals
You not only get “smashed” before AND after a Match
But that you might joyfully “smash” one another as well
Here we call it “tailgating”
But since our “Football Factories” are not well organized
We normally don’t kick the chit out of anyone wearing the “wrong” color
(was that Blue or Green?)
Now, for any of you ‘Merikan Locals who think “Football” is some kind of “Sissy Game”
Well, may we invite you to go into the Box for a Header, at full speed
With a Keeper like Peter Schmeichel (6’4″ 250 lbs) waiting for you
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Oh, and sorry, you don’t get to wear a helmet
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BC
USSF Referee, Assignor, and pretty good player in my day
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And p.s.
Take back Beckham, please ?
Oh yea – McMac and MCCFR
Will tell our TV Scottish Conan Guy you said “Hello”
Just make sure you “Share the Love”
With a “Glasgow Kiss”
Good money should be made in designing special iPhone holders since kilts have no pockets.
@Cubert
Wouldn’t be much of an army then. There were few survivors of the Battle of Thermopylae. And while I liked ‘300’, it’s by no means an entirely accurate version of the battle.
Freebeer, they’re called sporrans.
“The Sporran (Scottish Gaelic for ‘purse’) is a traditional part of Scottish Highland dress. It is a pouch that performs the same function as pockets on the pocketless Scottish kilt.”-Wikip.
@amyhre,
I know. It was a joke for those who would get it – not meant to be historically accurate.