Collaborate Disseminate
There are few devices that better exemplify the breakneck pace of modern technical advancement than the mobile phone. In the span of just a decade, we went from flip phones …read more Continue reading The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card
When looking at the specifications of smartphones that have been released over the past years, it’s remarkable to see how aspects like CPU cores, clockspeeds and GPU performance have improved …read more Continue reading Repurposing Old Smartphones: When Reusing Makes More Sense Than Recycling
Smartphones are amazing tools, but sometimes they can be an equally amazing time suck. In an effort to minimize how much precious time goes down the drain, [Lance Pan and …read more Continue reading Wooden Smartphone Sleeve Keeps You on Task
Folding phones are all the rage these days, with many of the major smartphone manufacturer’s having something in this form factor. Apple has been conspicuously absent in this market segment, …read more Continue reading First Folding iPhone Doesn’t Come from Apple
Ever wonder what makes a cellphone’s operating system secure, or what that app you just installed is saying about you behind your back? In a brand new video series, [Jiska] …read more Continue reading “Reversing Shorts” Demystify Phone Security
While it might seem like mobile phones are special devices, both in their ease of use and in their ubiquity in the modern culture, they are essentially nothing more than …read more Continue reading A Raspberry Pi Phone for the Modern Era
We know the pandemic has screwed with a lot of people’s sense of time, but we doubled checked, and it has indeed been more than two years since the Internet …read more Continue reading The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, Two Years Later
There is always some hype surrounding an Apple product announcement, and while maybe it’s not in the same league as those for the original iPod or iPhone, their iPhone 14 …read more Continue reading Apple’s Satellite Emergency Texts, How Do They Work?
Even though Nokia is largely an afterthought in the phone market now, there was a time when their products represented the state-of-the-art in mobile devices. Some of the their handsets …read more Continue reading Nokia 5110 Gets Android Stowaway and a Keyboard
Multiple people have recently shared this exciting demonstration (nitter) with us – visualizing airflow using a smartphone, called ‘background-oriented schlieren’. On a hot summer day, you might see waves in the …read more Continue reading Observe Airflow Using Smartphone And Background-Oriented Schlieren