Media

1912 - Tigerstedt < back to top

Thanks to a series of inventions associated with bringing sound to the world of film that he made at the beginning of the twentieth century, Eric Tigerstedt is widely considered one of Finland's most talented inventors ever. Tigerstedt lodged a total of 71 patents in numerous countries between 1912 and 1924.

Tigerstedt got the inspiration for his ideas during a presentation of the new motion picture technology developed by the Lumière brothers held in Helsinki in summer 1896, only six months after its first première in Paris. Tigerstedt's dream was to bring sound to Lumière's silent pictures, and his film, Word and Picture, which was presented to a gathering of scientific worthies in Berlin in 1914, was the world's first successful 'talking picture'. Although his technology was never commercialized, he went on to develop the triode and directional loudspeakers.

Tigerstedt's ideas also presaged such future inventions as the television and the mobile phone.

"There will come a time," he wrote in his diary, "when people will be able to sit at home and follow events around the world through a piece of equipment that I refer to as the electric eye." And in 1917, he lodged a patent for what he described as a "pocket-size, folding telephone with a very thin carbon microphone".

Links of finnish Innovations

Network

1988 - IRC < back to top

The Internet Relay Chat system was developed by a finnish student from Oulu called Jarkko Oikarinen. The system didn't become populer until the Gulf War once people were really wanting to get fresh information really fast. Oikarinen's work has been continued by many programmers around the world and the development work still goes on. IRC allows people around the world to talk with each other, spending time by making new friends and having to possibility of learning new langueges. IRC can even be quite addictive.

1994 - Nokia 2110 Series Phone < back to top

In May 1992 Nokia made the strategic decision to focus on telecommunications. The company's 2100 series phone was an incredible success. In 1994, the goal was to sell 500,000 units. Nokia sold 20 million.

1995 - SSH Secure Shell < back to top

The finnish company SSH Connections released the remote connection software SSH Secure Shell in the year 1995 to replace most of the unsafe Unix remote-programs. After the first version, SSH has evolved into a multiple-use network connection tool.

1998 - SMS Chat < back to top

A finnish innovative software solution made SMS chat possible. People could send SMS to a certain telephone number and then see the messages being shown on an Internet browser. Later the solution was evolved to work in a so called crossmedia environment, supporting Television broadcastings as well as the web and mobile phones.

Computing

1985 - JCAD < back to top

JCAD-, DocService- and ProPack- architectural visualization software. Jidea Oy was founded in 1985. We specialize in cad-software developing, document management and other software for special needs. Jidea Oy is part of , CCC-group. CCC is part of international Polar Electro -group.

1990 - Octamed Soundstudio < back to top

Some very welcome news was posted by RBF Software on the OctaMED-Amiga mailing list recently that the Amiga version of OctaMED SoundStudio, arguably one of the best music creation tools ever, has just received a (very) long overdue update. However, before you get too excited, this is only a minor update which involves a clean up of the code, some bug fixes and a re-compile for 68020 processors and above. Although the update does not contain anything new feature-wise, it does give hope to those that still use the Amiga version of OctaMED SoundStudio that new features will eventually be added as work continues.

1991 - SOT Linux server < back to top

SOT Linux -server is designed for the IT-professional. It works with IPv4- and IPv6-protocols. It uses (kernel) version 2.4.

Visit SOT Linux website

1991 - SOT Office < back to top

SOT Office is a free office tool for linux and windows. It saves .doc, .xls etc.

1994 - SOT-Best Linux < back to top

Linux Distribution

1994 - Hybrid Graphics < back to top

Hybrid Graphics has been developing commercial software rasterizers and visibility optimization software since 1994. Hybrid dPVS? is a library for real time 3D visibility determination. Based on Hybrid's Umbra? technology, dPVS? enables that only the things that are seen in a world will be drawn. This makes the creation of infinitely more complex and dynamic environments possible. Because the optimization is dynamic, the world can be changed during gameplay. Whether it means constructing new buildings on the fly or blowing up existing ones or both is entirely up to the game designer to decide.

1995 Max Payne by Remedy < back to top

Remedy Entertainment Ltd., a privately held developer of action computer games, game franchises and leading edge 3D game technology is based in Espoo, Finland.

1996 - Sensor SC < back to top

Sensor SC was established in to be a forerunner in utilizing Java technologies and providing high-quality software solutions to customers in the telecommunication business. Today, we have a profound and versatile competence that still leaves space for innovation and creativity. *Nesticus* is a powerful Web application development tool based on Java and servlet technologies. It allows UI designers to design HTML pages with any HTML editor and Java developers to use any Java IDE to implement application logic to the Web pages. Nesticus then converts HTML pages into Java code and finally integrates the entire application without any need for manual integration. Nesticus supports also multi-channel UIs, thus making it easy to develop multi-channel applications just by redesigning the UI.

2001 - World Talk Finnish-Eurotalk < back to top

This is the first time I have ever been so excited about learning a language. I've tried using just about every other method to learn Finnish (except actually going and living in Finland.) I tried out this program for the first time today and it measures up. The plusses of the program is that you can get English instructions easily if you need them (a safety net) but otherwise the program immerses you into the language. The program feels like you are playing a game but the stinky trick is you are actually learning at the same time (awesome!). The only minus is that I have yet to find a quit button on the World Talk Finnish program (but I tend not to be overly observant or patient) and the Talk Now program had better graphics. Mind you my experience with the Talk Now program is more extensive, but the World Talk program definitely reaches par. Using this program is the best way to learn especially if you have difficulty learning languages using books and tapes and don't have the luxury in enrolling in a Finnish language course.

Thank you for your time! We apologize that not all of the information is referenced to it's original source.

Alexander Budde, Joakim Achren, Leonidas Kambiselis
Brief History of New Media / Media Lab 2003