Archive for October, 2005
Friday, October 21st, 2005
I just came across this Gizmodo post (which they got from Textually) about a stealthy and sexy way to carry your cellphone. The Body Safe and Phone Safe form fit to your body to conceal your valuables.
Easter Egg:
Notice the nipple slip on the product page for the Body ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
A BT analyst says that soon, well, within 15 years, women's breast implants will hold chips to play music.
Everyone picked up on this article. I decided not to until I thought of the post title - "Tune in Tokyo".
It is an oblique reference, I'm sure most of you won't ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
In case you weren't there...
The CTIA is offering anyone who missed this year's Wireless I.T. and Entertainment event a second chance to catch the keynote addresses, with the announcement of a webcast highlights show.
Link (via MobileIndustry.biz)
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
So much good stuff from picturephoning today!
Earlier this week I blogged about phone security technology which can identify a user by the way he walks. Here is another take on cell phone security.
Oki Electric Industry is launching a technology that inexpensively adds face recognition to camera-equipped cellphones. Oki's Face ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
picturephoning.com has a post about a new technology in Korea which will let the caller choose a picture to be displayed on the recipients phone - a la IM buddy icons.
Korean phone operator SK Telecom is launching “Image Call”, a service that allows callers to choose their favorite image ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Yes, that is what you think it is.
What will they think of next. Wait... didn't I think of this one?
Link: textually.org
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
This is the beginning of a new type of McDonald's Playland/Playplace
Starbucks has found a way to keep people in their "cafes" with WiFi. McDonald's and Nintendo may have figured out how to do the same for kids. In a recent announcement, Nintendo says that its DS users will be able ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
A few weeks ago I was speaking with a friend of mine about games we used to play when we were younger. Along with others we mentioned the Mattel LED-based handhelds, Pong, (Electronic) Battleship, Perfection and Simon. If you don't recall, Simon, which looked like a colorful UFO, was an ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
The Crypt-a-Cell is designed to encrypt, to military level, outgoing and incoming, voice communications over the GSM network, by creating an encrypted communications channel with either an encryption centre or another Crypt-a-Cell unit.
Using cutting edge technology this system comprehensively protects against eavesdropping and therefore the theft of privileged and personal ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
NYT has a look at the making of mobisodes, basing it a lot on the experience of those behind Fox’s 24:Conspiracy series. The first thing we learn is that bullet holes have to be twice as big and have twice as much blood to be visible on the mobile screen…
I'll ...
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