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Posts tagged “cell phone”

Look! Kyocera's Foldable Phone: Folds Up in Your Pocket

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to fold up your phone when you don't need it? How about only partially unfolding it in order to make a quick call or to send a text message? That's the concept that Kyoc...

Look! New Shrunken iPhone Available: Not Made By Apple!

Rumors have been circulating for years now about the iPhone Nano. Will Apple ever release it? The trouble is that more and more companies are coming up with iPhone-like devices that will fill the gap ...

What's Happening This Instant in the Tech World

Commercials are the bane of our TV-addicted existence. They stink so much to watch that somebody had to go and invent TiVo so we didn't have to sit through one more rugged SUV bouncing over rocky terr...

How To... Make a Cell Phone Caddy

Perhaps you charge your cell phone at your landing strip, or you might have it next to your bed, like us. Either way, the charger wire is usually in plain sight. If you hate the eyesore, here's an eas...

Camouflaged Cables

If you can't beat 'em, join em. With wireless power nowhere to be seen, we are not left with many power cord options. Try your best to hide them or learn to deal with seeing them snake around your des...

Med School Student Scans Gadgets with a CT Scanner

Yeah, a third-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College would normally use a CT scanner to create images of brains and knees, looking for blood clots or fractures. But not when the med sch...

Home Remedies For Common Electronics Mishaps

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about her Indian mom who has a convenient library of home remedies stuck her in brain, kinda like the "Put some Windex on it" dad from My Big Fa...

There's More Than One Way to Catch a Virus on Your Phone

Think about where your cell phone travels everyday. It comes up from the nightstand in the morning and it might follow you into the kitchen when you make breakfast or in the bathroom when you shower a...

Philips Xenium Flip Phone: The Best of Both Worlds?

When I first started using cell phones, I always enjoyed the clamshell or flip format. I found these types of phones very useful and cool because you could answer and end a call just by opening the fl...

Ulysse Nardin's Smart Phone: Steampunk for the Rich

You know that Steampunk has hit the mainstream when a celebrated Swiss watchmaker is planning on creating a hybrid smart phone. From the press release and the information that is currently available o...

Modu: The Incredible Modular Phone

It's kind of obscene at the amount of waste that we generate with our gadgets. Every year or two, we change cell phones, computers, laptops, MP3 players, and more. The trouble is that there isn't much...

Trade In Cell Phones with AT&T?

Are you the type to always crave the latest and greatest, even when what you've got is pretty shiny and new? AT&T is considering this plan just for customers like you. They're looking to launch a cell...

Water Droplet Headset: A Stylish Bluetooth Earring

I can't remember how many times I've come upon people talking with their Bluetooth headsets and thinking that they were speaking to me. Naturally they weren't, and I'm glad that I'm not the only one w...

News: Woman Finds Cell Phone in a Bag of Chips

Score! A free cell phone, and all this lucky lady from Wisconsin had to buy was a bag of chips. Sure, it ain't no touch screen iPhone from 1983, but this is definitely more interesting than any toy o...

Hump Day Treat: Cell Phone or Chewing Gum?

So it's Wednesday. It's not the slummy nose-to-the-grindstone beginning of the week, but it's not yet the weekend. It's the perfect day to take a little break and play a silly game like "Are these nam...

LG Makes a Transparent Cell Phone

Watch out, LG is making some cool and slick design decisions. That being said, it's been a long time coming that manufacturers would come out with transparent parts for your cell phone. Thankfully, th...

The Dream Iphone Pro: The Ultimate Cell Phone?

Ever since the iPhone came out, cell phone manufacturers have been trying to come up with a viable competitor. Until now, the verdict isn't out. It's agreed that the Apple iPhone interface and form fa...

Solar Powered Cell Phones: Sustainable Phones for the Future?

Until solar panels are harnessing a lot more power out of the sun, electricity will always be a precious commodity. Solar energy is a way to take things out of the hands of the Man and back into yours...

Final Frame: Mao and the Chinese Cell Phone Revolution

Did you ever imagine cell phones would be so important? Thanks to its proximity to Japan and Taiwan, China is getting the most advanced phones before North America. Will China rule the world? [Painti...

Alcatel's Affordable Modular LEGO Cell Phone

LEGO and technology. Could there be a better combination? LEGOs hearken to the age when we were kids running around and building stuff. I can still remember all of the fun that I had with my LEGO bric...

Lists to Always Keep On Your Flash Drive or PDA

With the insane amount of space that we can have constant and portable access to these days (Hello 2TB memory stick!), there are opportunities to really make good use of portable memory—whether ...

Modular Cell Phones: The Way of the Future?

We all love our iPhones, but will it still represent the wave of the future in a few years? The one thing that I can't bear without is some form of input device, better than a small touchscreen that i...

Keep Your Gadget on a Leash. No, Really.

Kids are precious cargo. We strap them down and wrangle them in everywhere we go, with the really paranoid among us controversially tying their kids the the other end of a leash. So in the case of our...

LG Video Phone Watch: Your Own Dick Tracy Watch

You know that you've always wanted one. A watch to do all things, from being your telephone to being your own TV. Well LG has decided to make this myth a reality. It's been tried before, but for once,...

Fold Away Phones: Coming to a Pocket Near You Soon

With the evolution of E ink type displays, we are getting closer and closer to thinner and thinner phones. OLED is another technology that is going to be widely available soon. Some digital picture fr...