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Today’s uproar is not occurring in a concerted cry of outrage like it normally does, but instead it is occurring in the volume of material being published on so many different fronts. Two weeks ago we covered the fact that smartphones track our locations: Today’s uproar – Apple’s iPhone and 3G iPad track your location [...]
Sprint has demonstrated a new dual screen cell phone – apparently the first phone of this type to hit the market. It is called the Kyocera Echo as seen here: The video above shows that it has three modes: closed (looks like a normal smartphone), tablet mode and PC mode. It is priced similarly to [...]
Are Cell Phone Bills the New Fertility Calendars?
by Cristen Conger | November 30, 2010
We’ve heard about the forthcoming STD testing app for smartphones. Just yesterday, HowStuffWorks premiered a super fantastic app that is guaranteed to change your life. And as if life couldn’t get any more amazing thanks to cell phones, psychologists have discovered yet another functionality for these gadgets. Cell phones might be able to track a woman’s fertility.
Over the last week or so, there seems to be something that has changed. It seems like the general public is broadly becoming more activistic. The most obvious sign of it is the reaction to the new, more aggressive stance of the TSA. There is a huge uproar about backscatter X-ray machines and the “groping” [...]
There are now three flavors of 4G in the U.S. – WiMax, HSPA+ and LTE
by Marshall Brain | October 29, 2010
Sprint claimed the title of the “first 4G network” in the U.S. when it deployed it HTC Evo 4G phone on its WiMax network earlier in 2010: Is this the ultimate smartphone today? A look at the HTC EVO 4G Sprint has WiMax in about 30 cities. According to this page, WiMax offers 3 – [...]
This truly has to be one of the best attempts ever to take a product that is not selling and trying to find the right marketing niche for it…
Cellular phone systems divide areas of coverage into “cells,” hence the name. Marshall Brain details how these systems work in this episode.
The New York Times has an interesting piece about a group of scientists, most of whom specialize in psychology or neuroscience, who went on a week-long camping trip to discuss how technology affects the way we behave and think. To say that technology can have an adverse effect on how we process thought is grossly oversimplifying the issue. But the piece raises a question many have asked in the past: Are we letting technology ruin our ability to think?
The following video is interesting in it’s own right – it shows how easy it is to steal bicycles in New York City. The video demonstrates the use of bolt cutters, a hack saw, an angle grinder and a hammer/chisel in bicycle theft…
Something like 10 years ago, HowStuffWorks wrote its first iteration of the article How WIMAX works. It spells out the promise of WiMAX this way…
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