The “Telemegaphone Dale” by Magnus Torstensson and Erik Sandelin is a loudspeaker post on top of Bergkletten in Dale, Norway. To use the project, just call it with your cell phone and your voice is amplified and played out the hilltop speaker. The project officially opens on August 2nd and is part of a larger […]
This “String Can Public Phone” was seen on the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. This simple idea of repurposing and reclaiming obsolete technologies is something that we are seeing pop up more and moe in urban centers where the standard public pay phone is quickly becoming a thing of the past as cellphones take over. […]
You can get early access to iTunes 7.7 and iPhone 2.0 firmware, just go to software update / install the latest iTunes (after use this link to see the apps) then use this link & instructions to download the iPhone 2.0 firmware. This won’t be useful in a few hours, but feel free to tinker […]
It’s July 11th somewhere in the world, that means…iPhone 3G teardown.
The “Mobile Forest Exhibition” in Japan is an art and technology show that attempts to re-examine the effect of cell phones on contemporary culture. Check out more photos of the show at the link below. Mobile Forest Exhibition, [via]
Alice Wang’s tyrant makes waking up a little more important… via Engadget. This alarm clock steals your mobile phone and randomly shuffles through your contact list and calls someone every three minutes after the desired wake up time. This looks like a concept piece, but you could actually build one of these in few ways… […]
The open source Linux phone – the Neo FreeRunner fromopenmoko is now on sale… It’s open source software (not hardware) to be specific, but they *do* have the CAD files which is a great first step! … Currently there isn’t a 100% opens source phone yet (that I know of). Openmoko, developer of the first […]
