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I, too, was impressed when Apple unveiled its integrated antenna case design at the iPhone 4 announcement event back in May. Little did I know the actual reception of the iPhone 4 would be worse than my original first generation (OG) iPhone. The issue has even prompted Apple to seek out actual antenna engineers (seriously). Until there’s an official fix to this problem, folks experiencing the “death grip” can try Oliver Nelson’s 99-cent “Ghetto iPhone 4 case”.
Love your mouse, but tired of having to cart it around everywhere?
Boris Smus, a student at Carnegie Mellon, built this elegantly simple robot that uses a smartphone to interpret commands from Twitter. A few projects around the internet use an Android phone to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT brick. Most involve an ugly hack in which the phone communicates with a computer over WiFi, and the […]
Here’s a pretty awesome 3d display, that uses synchronized droplets of water to project a 3-layer image.
MIT’s Camera Culture team has created a very unique and cost effective mobile optometry solution for developing countries using an Android phone and a small plastic device clipped on to the front of the mobile.
Our friends over at Core77 got a chance to sit down with Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design, Jonathan Ive, to talk about the materials that went into, and informed the design of, the iPhone 4. Yeah, I know, the Apple haters will hate, but there’s some interesting… ah… material here, like the quote below. […]
Well, I finally get to let the cat out of the bag. We’ve got Pixel Qi screens available in the Maker Shed as of today.
