Paper covered phone (Looks like a phone chemical suit)
I like this simple cell phone protector made from paper, it looks like a little chemical or radiation suit for your cell phone and best of all you can draw your own buttons… – Link.
Cellphones
Drive your Roomba with your cell phone
Todbot writes – “Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I’ve wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone. All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific. Trying to develop J2ME (aka “JavaME”) applications for cell phones has been a mess, especially for non-Windows […]
HOW TO – Remove logos from your PDA / cell phone with sugar
Here’s a way to remove logos with sugar on all sorts of gadgets…Spanval writes – “This instructable is to show you how easy it is to remove some unwanted logo’s from cell phones and other plastic / metal products. The logo has to be of the type glued onto the surface rather then etched in […]
DIY Banana phone
Larry scored a Jabra Bluetooth headset for under $20 and after a quick trip to the craft mart made a banana phone – [via] Thanks Steve! – Link. Related: Turn a brick cell phone into a Bluetooth headset – Link. Ringringringringringringring banana phone – Link. Cell phone hacks, mods and more – Link.
Recycled cell phones help drive third world wireless boom
Profile of ReCellular, a company gets about 75,000 used phones a week and recycles / refurbs them for other parts of the world – “With the number of cell phones in use worldwide hitting 2 billion and rising, recycled phones are playing a crucial role in the spread of wireless communications across the developing world, […]
HOW TO – Setting up a SMS gateway
MAKE reader Dml points out that there’s a cheaper and easier way to send a SMS message to a cell phone using a GPRS modem (via a software/hardware interface) – you can use an old Nokia handset, here’s how – Link. Previous: Send a SMS message to a cell phone using a GPRS modem – […]
Send a SMS message to a cell phone using a GPRS modem
Max is busy lately, his latest – he shows how to send a SMS message to a cell phone using a Bluetree GPRS modem (first time I’ve seen a project with one). It’s a pretty interesting project, you could make all sorts of sensors / things with triggers that send off a SMS… Link.
