Yet another reason why I am glad to have a jailbroken iPhone. Yup, this one is limited to those who are jailbroken, or willing to jailbreak. Anyway, it is possible, even easy to make VoIP calls on the iPhone using a cellular connection, which in my case is AT&T’s 3G network
Photo from Connors934 on Flickr Do you have a phone with a touch screen? Have you tried out some music applications and found the thing a bit awkward to hold? Last year I saw some people messing with guitar application on their phones at the Boston Fab Lab and it got me thinking. When I […]
Photo from Petmar0 on Flickr Pete responded in the comments to the the call for designs in the Rural Celly Charger article on Saturday. How about connecting a joule-thief circuit (DC-DC upconverter) to a cap on one side and a small solar cell (like the ones in calculators) on the other? You pull off of […]
Image from Women of Uganda Network The Women of Uganda Network has an interesting story of a woman who got scammed at a cell phone charging business. Mrs. Muyonjo is a housewife in a remote village of Ivukula in Iganga district, Eastern Uganda. She used to ride her bicycle for twenty miles in order to […]
By way of Ladyada comes this tidbit from this morning’s iPhone OS 3.0 press conference. She writes: Ryan Block from GDGT has some major news from the iPhone 3.0 press conference, pretty soon you’ll be able to make/hack/add any accessories to the iPhone – wow! We’ll see some Arduino projects shortly. 10:20AM – Apps talk […]
Bunnie visited the cell phone market in China… One thing that’s true about the technology markets in China is that the more you learn about it, the less you find you know. Liam Casey, “Mr. China†himself, and the CEO of PCH, came in and said exactly that our first day on the tour. I […]
Phone sniffs your breath to detect diseases… Applied Nanodetectors Ltd (AND) of the UK prototyped a mobile phone that can detect various diseases from user’s breath and exhibited it at the International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference (nano tech 2009). The handset was manufactured by Nokia Corp of Finland. AND is aiming to do businesses with […]
