LONDON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Yrjo Neuvo, chief technical officer of Nokia cell phones, reads J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books for inspiration, which could lead to new phone gimmicks.
"I have read all the Harry Potter books, including the last one," he told BBC News Online. "And when you read them with my kind of mindset, technology orientated, I always ask myself how we can implement that."
The popular author is "very good when it comes to predicting the future" and many of the things she is painting in her books can be implemented in phones in five to 10 years. It's really exciting," according to Neuvo.
For example, Nokia have developed a picture frame which will be available later this year which lets people beam images onto it directly from their phones, similar to the ghostly moving people in framed pictures which deck Hogwarts' staircase, the BBC said.
However, there are no plans to make Nokia handsets which double as Nimbus 2000 quidditch brooms, said Neuvo.
