Pre-paid cell phones sell very well at mass merchant retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart and few pre-paid phones among the museum pieces offered by Tracfone or even those from the hip Virgin Mobile and major carriers offer anything close to the Peek experience today.
Jawbone, the privately held maker of the Jambox mobile speaker and those in-ear Bluetooth headsets beautiful enough to be in the Museum of Modern Art, is making big moves lately.
Think, for example, about how the American Museum of Natural History is using location-based technology to give visitors information on exhibits through their mobile devices.