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Brilliant Idea: A Cellphone Dryer
Aug 10th
Ever drenched your cell phone with water? Then head to Japan and shove your phone into the “Cell Phone Dryer Box”. A 30 minute cycle in this box should get your phone working again. The company doesn’t want to show off how they do it but it costs bout $12 to revive your waterlogged phone.
The dryers are setup at a few Yodobashi Camera stores in Tokyo, Japan. A brilliant idea for a common problem.
When In A Ford, Listen To Tweets Handsfree
Jul 30th
The system does not allow you to tweet back to make sure you don’t think too hard while driving. This is to make sure you are not distracted from your primary job at the wheel – DRIVE. But experts say that this may only lead to the driver reaching out to the phone to tweet back. Now come on, if the system can take voice commands it can also tweet, right?
“Making SYNC even more intuitive and easier to use will encourage more drivers to take advantage of its hands-free capabilities, helping them keep their focus on driving,” said Mark Fields, the Executive Vice President of Ford Motor Company.
The future’s going to be quite interesting given that there’s going to be some augmented reality, some tweeting and some self controlling cars. But for now let’s stick to what we have.
Ideabing Daily Roundup: National Threat Edition
Jul 26th
Blackberry A National Threat To UAE, Apparently.
Infographic: Conserving Water The Good Way
Infographic: A History Of Apps
First Mobile Video Relay Application for Deaf
Jul 20th
IWRelay launched the first mobile video relay application Friday, allowing Deaf and hard of hearing iPhone users to have on-the-go conversations with friends and family members who hear. The iPhone application, called IWRelay VRS, connects Deaf mobile phone users with video relay interpreters. Using the new iPhone 4 FaceTime feature, a Deaf caller communicates by sign language
Mesh Network For Cellphones Eliminates Need for Towers
Jul 16th
We thought that this would be the future of telephony but did not know it was already happening in the land down under. 3 Australian researchers have started the Several Project that aims to end the need for cellular towers for cellphones to work. The cellphone instead depend on each other as the cellphones themselves act as cellular towers thus creating a mesh network.
Each cell phone in the mesh network is WiFi enabled and can make and receive calls within the mesh. This eliminates the need for expensive cellular towers. This concept could be of great use in remote regions where creating a cellular network may not be economically viable. This network is comparable to a bit torrent where every person downloading a file is also uploading bits of the file to another down loader. Sounds good? We think so.
Want To Check Your Email In Your Car? Buy A BMW
Jun 26th
Now this is what we call messed up or productive, depending on how you see it. If you are the globe trotting CEO who wants to stay in touch with people via email even when you are driving your car, then this is productive. If you have just purchased the car to drive around like this guy did, then this is messed up. BMW is integrating email reading functions into their cars’ connect drive display unit. This means that if you have a Blackberry phone (no iPhone, sorry), you can now read emails off the phone directly on the car’s display unit. Now you decide if this is productive or messed up. Mr. Arnold, if you are listening could you please consider passing a law that bans drivers from reading their emails while in their BMW’s in Cal? Shots of the email interface after the break.
Aava Mobile Talks Tablets, More Goodies This Year
Jun 23rd
Aava mobile, the open mobile platform startup is getting Intel into the high end smartphone scene currently ruled by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. We talked to Piotr Frasunkiewicz, the main man behind the sales and marketing at Aava. He talks to us about the Aava platform, Android fragmentation, Meego, Intel vs. Qualcomm, the Palm-HP marriage and
Sun + Fun + Design = Puma Phone
Jun 17th
The day when the sun will power almost everything is not far away. Puma has decided to take a head start, at least in making an awesome looking mobile phone with Sagem that’s solar powered. The phone has a great interface, mainly aimed at the youngsters. But the best part is that it’s battery gets charged
ESPN to Bring Cisco TelePresence to 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
May 25th
Cisco today announced that ESPN will use Cisco TelePresenceTM to deliver live and recorded coverage of soccer matches and connect the global soccer community with teams, players and coaches at the 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer Tournament in South Africa. The incorporation of Cisco TelePresence will allow ESPN to deliver televised content more effectively and
Nokia Money Pilot Begins In India. Ahem.
May 3rd
Almost everyone in the world owns a cellphone, some of you folks are probably reading this off your fancy Blackberry (Please donate cash…I want one too). So what does a company like Nokia do when it has put a cellphone in almost everyone’s hands? Bank on the re-sale? Well…that would be a little ambitious simply
AT&T Is Rethinking Possible. We Don’t Think So.
May 1st
Seen those new AT&T ads on TV? The whole “Rethink Possible” thing? When did they give up making fun of Verizon? Why? Because the iPad is in its kitty and the iPhone 4G is headed Verizon’s way as well. Maybe? Apple WWDC is 1 month away and AT&T doesn’t want to loose customers to Verizon
Pepsi Adds Refreshing Content To Nokia’s Ovi Store
Apr 28th
Nokia today announced the launch of the Ovi Store football channel featuring exclusive Pepsi content as well as entertainment, apps and information from the world’s most recognized football content providers. The channel leverages Ovi Store’s global reach to offer Nokia football fans around the globe the easiest place to shop for the most popular and most refreshing mobile football content.
CMU Student Uses Skin as Input For Mobile Devices
Apr 23rd
A combination of simple bio-acoustic sensors and some sophisticated machine learning makes it possible for people to use their fingers or forearms — and potentially, any part of their bodies — as touchpads to control smart phones or other mobile devices.
Google Navigation On The iPhone? Drool! Drool!
Apr 23rd
he last time Google tried to put its product into an Apple product, things did not work out so well. The whole thing about AT&T being converted to a data pipe in case Google Voice came aboard the iPhone did not go down too well AT&T or Apple. This time round it may be different. TechRadar reports that Google Navigation may finally be headed towards 1, Infinity Loop. Yes, you heard it right! The iPhone may finally get the all too amazing Google Navigation app. It’s not just the iPhone but also other platforms that may get it – read Blackberry and Palm WebOS. It is unlikely that Symbian will get it since Nokia already has it’s own navigation product. No timelines yet, but it’s coming. Good timing, iPhone OS4.0 and all that? Good times in store for Apple fanboys.
SAMSUNG Mobile Secures #1 U.S. Market Share For 2009. Eh?
Apr 21st
Apple’s harping about their iPhone sales and about Apple being the world’s largest “mobile devices” company and all of a sudden Samsung springs out of the blue to declare itself no.1 in terms of market share in the U.S? Doesn’t make too much sense, but number are numbers. Right? Apparently Samsung phone users also rank no.1 in loyalty towards
