Looking for a better reason to have that high powered phone on your hip? How about saving the world, or saving yourself? The applications are designed to change people’s behavior for the better, said Sunny Consolvo, one of UbiFit’s creators. In a three-month field experiment, people using UbiFit with the background display kept up their […]
Nikropht writes in – We received a few HTC ExtUSB connectors from PodGizmo. The first thing we thought of, was making the T-Mobile G1 send the audio to an iPod Speaker set we have. There is a sea of iPod accessories, so naturally the dock connector has a well known pinout. Figuring out the pinout […]
The first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, has been out for a couple of months now, and it’s turned out to be a nicely hackable phone. Google has opened things up a bit more by making a read-only development branch, “cupcake”, available for public perusal. If you’re wondering when we’ll see these enhancements on a […]
Scientists Hack Cellphone to Analyze Blood, Detect Disease, Help Developing Nations @ Wired… A new MacGyver-esque cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet. Using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester […]
This gel-remote control which was redesigned by Panasonic as something that is “waiting to be touched” actually seems a bit more freaky than functional. Constructed from a soft, flesh-like gel, the remote appears to be cold when turned off. When on, a soft light glows from its middle and the device begins to mimic the […]
Over at the Steampunk Workshop, Jake von Slatt posted this brief item: Here’s a dead simple cell phone charging station I installed next to our main entrance. It’s just a pair of hangers of the sort you’d use in the garage to store a shovel or a rake. If your wall isn’t made of barn-board […]
This is a great development; Google is selling G1s that are not only unlocked, but that will accept unofficial builds of the Android operating system. Google’s warning will be pure delight for makers and hackers: “Since the devices can be configured with system software not provided by or supported by Google or any other company, […]
