Could you imagine walking around with your wireless device (i.e. PDA, Treo, Blackberry, P2P) and having music from other nearby devices sent to you wirelessly based on your own listening preferences and history? That is the dream of Push!Music out of the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute of Sweden.

Imagine that you have a mobile device that can store and play back music files, for example a mobile phone with an MP3 player. As you encounter various people, the devices you are carrying connect to each other wirelessly and media agents from the other nearby devices check the status of your media collection. Based on what you have been listening to in the past and which files you already own, new music might spontaneously and autonomously “jump” from another device to yours (and vice versa). Later, when you listen to your songs, your Push!Music player also plays some newly obtained tunes that you had not heard before.

Since I think the inevitable global wireless networks will blow the doors out on what the future of digital audio and video holds, the foresight of Push!Music is exciting and represents only a sliver of what is to come. I will definately watch these guys.  For additional reading check out their business or master use-case.

via The Raw Feed

Enjoy.