The KNFB Reader lets users photograph printed material, then reads it back… The possibilities of a ‘portable eye’ – The Boston Globe. When Peter Alan Smith pulls out his phone in a crowded Back Bay restaurant, there’s no clue that his Nokia is by far the most expensive mobile phone in the entire place. He […]
Todd’s article on getting the new T-Mobile G1 (Google Android) to sync with a Mac… My T-Mobile G1 phone based on Google’s Android platform arrived on Monday. It was a big change for me because I’ve been using Windows Mobile based smartphones since 2002 when I started with the very first T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone […]
25 years of cell phone service… Pictured above, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cost $3,995, was 13 inches long, and weighed 1.75 pounds… Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first commercial wireless call. It happened Oct. 13, 1983, at Soldier Field, where Ameritech Mobile, now part of Verizon Wireless, made the call from a Motorola […]
This Nokia concept phone is made from sustainable timber and features an 8 megapixel camera, bluetooth, integrated speaker, and runs Symbian. We like it when big companies go green, and this is a nice way of proclaiming your love for the environment without getting splinters, as you would with this other wooden cellphone mod. via […]
Designed as a multiplayer version of his skittle-based sequencer, Kyle McDonald created this camera-driven beat making setup using webcam, projector, and openFrameworks based software. Since it’s deriving data from each phone’s lit screen, it would seem this could become a flashlight-based sequencer with ease. Info on Vimeo – I See Beats More: I Eat Beats […]
Meet the Peek — $100 and $20/month for service, not exactly at the cheap threshold for it to be a fun device to pick up for hacking – but it will be interesting to see if folks want an always on email only device. If it’s hackable (all things are usually) it could be used […]
I saw Mayor Bloomberg of NYC speak a few days before our NYC Maker Faire event and he outlined a new service which allows anyone to upload photos and video to their 911 and 311 services (311 is for things like potholes, trash, city stuff). I was pretty excited about this new leap in government […]
