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Recharge your mobile via a photovoltaic film on the screen
A French start-up won first prize in mobile innovation at the CTIA Wireless conference which took place in the end of March in Orlando Florida, for the invention of a photovoltaic film for mobile phones, ( although the technique can also be applied to LCD screens, digital tablets, technical textiles and outdoor displays). Rewarded in…
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Could nanotechnology become the next technology to revolutionize the mobile phone industry?
Could nanotechnology become the next technology to revolutionize the mobile phone industry? The mobile telephony is changing rapidly. We just have to look around and see how far the technology has gained representation touch in our day to day. Launched at the exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art “Design and the Elastic Mind”, the…
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Why do Apple devices keep a log of your location? And why didn’t they tell you?
According to recent reports published in differents media, for example in “The guardian” a British’s newspaper; and public denounces in the Congress of EEUU, Apple devices keep a record of where you have been using them. In addition to the violation of privacy and the risk posed if your iPhone or iPad falls into the…
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Mobile apps: mirrors of your personality or reflections of our Society ?
Tell me what you use and I will tell you who you want to be ? Of course… What is interesting about cell phone use is not the technological achievement but what we can learn about people in terms of social behavior. Following the example of social games like Farmville, edited by Zynga, where people…
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Mobiles phones or a new way of payment
Very soon traditional wallets and credit cards will be unnecessary to pay for purchases in stores. In fact, experiments in Near Field Communication (NFC) are multiplying in Europe and more precisely in Nice which has been experimenting with a new system for the last year. The trial attempts to turn an iPhone or a smart…
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Are mobile phones dangereous for your health ?
Today, mobile phones are part of our daily life and our culture. But last month, a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicated that the use of mobile phones could alter brain activity. The report said it was unclear whether the changes in the brain activity after using the phone for…
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Mozilla Labs Concept- Seabird Mobile Phone
There are many phones out in the market right now and many more are in the design phase but none that compares to the design of the SeaBird. The future will consist only of Smart Phones and the future will have many phones like the SeaBird but if this phone comes out first then it…
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Microscope cellular phone
Music player, game console, GPS or camera, these are just some of the uses that we have made of our cell phones. The possibilities continue to expand and an American researcher has taken on the challenge of transforming our cell phones into medical tools. M. Aydogan Ozcan, an engineer from the University of California UCLA…
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Marathon Battery Life Mobile in India
Innovative ideas for targeting Indian customers from an Indian company called Micromax Micromax was a company set up in March 2008 and within 3 yrs captured over 7% of the Indian mobile market. Their growth has been mainly due to their innovative phone ideas that target certain niche needs of people. They have been giving people…
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Kinect + Nokia, how does that sound?
At first sight the idea makes our imagination fly because we normally associate Kinect with the Xbox, but if we think about a mobile phone approach we can imagine a broad number of things that could become possible. This year, in February Nokia announced their partnership with Microsoft in order to equip their phones with…