JKK Mobile has some stills from the video where you can clearly see signal strength and battery meters on the device:

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/01/modu-revealed.html

I’m intrigued by this concept…

However, I can’t help but think that the iPhone, together with its ecosystem of docks, already provides the same functionality!

building a device, is one thing. Building a viable ecosystem around it – well that’s something else all together….

Ummmm… it’s a chick who eats toast?

It is this thing from Bill Gates’ book The Road Ahead – a personal identifier that personalizes every appliance you let it make contact with.

to me, its basically flash memory with a eink/oled/lcd clock on the outside. it stores all your personal data (contacts, calendar, music and so on) in predefined formats on said device, and can be read by programs and devices around the home, office and elsewhere.

nothing more to it really. in many ways its a very upscaled sim card…

My vote is for a plug and play small computer, it would contain only the motherboard, CPU, memory, and possibly storage. It could be like a MID but it would matter what you put it into various docking stations which define its functionality. When docked into the home clock, it’s a clock/ MP# player. When in the car it uses the GPS hardware in the car for navigation and possibly MP3 playing (maybe even a cell phone.) At work attached to your Mac book there are a few things i.e. broadband card using the G3 data network or it could sync your calendar.
2 or 3 years ago I saw an IBM prototype, which would ‘dock’ into a laptop shell or desktop shell they had 4 or 5 different form factors which was really neat.

Looks like a colossal waste of time…

Looks like a cell phone/ipod nano, that can sync various types of PIM data, through I am guessing add-on docking ports. In my opinion it’s a little to niche to make it in the current smart phone market.

This looks like another one of those products that is absolutely amazing as long as we buy all the things that work with it while it works with absolutely nothing of what we already have.

I’ve got a better idea. Improve Bluetooth PAN so I only have to know where my cellular phone is. It can be my gateway to everything. Then I don’t have to worry about wondering which device I left my modular Modu dohickey in last. :-)

Mr. Big Oil may be pulling our legs: http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=MODU :-)