Cell phones as diagnostic tools in areas without ultrasound & X-Ray machines via Book of Joe. A professor of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley and his colleagues have developed a cheaper way to perform medical imaging using a cellular phone. Boris Rubinsky’s team has developed a portable medical scanner that can be plugged […]
Nathan Stubblefield was granted a patent for a “portable” telephone 1908, happy 100th mobile phone! Check out some of the photos! Nathan Stubblefield’s ‘portable’ telephone, which needed a large transmitter, invented in 1908, the device came complete with an unwieldy metal transmitter. A far cry from the tiny mobile phones in use today, the telephone […]
This project uses a Nokia 6100 LCD and breakout board along with a hacked, tiny digital picture frame and can wirelessly download mages from Flickr to display on the screen. This is a great project with some detailed instructions including circuit diagrams and parts list at the link below. Flickr images on a Nokia LCD
Her cell phone is ringing, but the display is turned off. She lightly pushes a small dot on the skin on her left forearm to suddenly reveal a two by four inch tattoo with the image of the cell phone’s digital display, directly in the skin of her arm. She answers the call by pushing […]
Pianist (used to be named iAno) is a virtual piano application for the iPhone/iPod touch. Remember Schroeder, who could play such astounding music on his toy piano? [via]
I know there are people out there that are going to upgrade to the new iPhone once it’s released. The real question is, what to do with your old iPhone? Well, maybe you should make a robot? Or maybe you should just sell it on Craigslist? Read more about the iPhone & LEGO Robot
Make your own iPhone skin with this tutorial. You can download a template from the website, along with very detailed instructions. I really like the matte black finish, since it will help hide all those messy fingerprints and tiny scratches. The slimmest of iPhone cases is still too thick to use with the dock, so […]
