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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Hey, Silicon Valley people! Blue Lava Wireless, which makes Tetris for
cell
phones, was acquired for $137 million...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The Firebox is the most compact, fully-featured FireWire recording interface I've ever seen. Looks like it should be ex
cell
ent for recording on the road with a laptop...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The "stratellite" can replace satellites at 1/10 the cost. Hopefully, it will make
cell
phone towers obsolete...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Use your
cell
phone to pay for parking. These systems greatly reduce cost, maintenance, and long lines...
A shortage of silicon is making solar
cell
s scarce. A federal program could help, but funding for solar energy has gone from "pathetic" to "laughable and ridiculous"...
March 21 to 27, 2005
A blogged picture of a procession in Spain demonstrates the rising use of
cell
phone cameras to capture major events...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Another hydrogen fuel-
cell
bike prototype...
More and more young kids want
cell
phones these days...
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract information from PDAs and
cell
phones from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
March 7 to 13, 2005
New Order's new music posters beam music, art, and ringtones to nearby
cell
phones...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
What a
cell
phone bomb trigger looks like...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Samsung introduces
cell
phone videoconferencing...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
Here's where your
cell
phones go...
February 14 to 20, 2005
I went to the last meeting of 106 Miles, a new Silicon Valley entrepreneur's group organized by Joyce Park, my colleague at CommerceNet. If you'd like to get your finger on the pulse of the Valle...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Internet overnight thanks to its ex
cell
ent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
Genetically modified plants are proving to be an ex
cell
ent way to clean up toxic soils...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
cell
phones are making area codes obsolete...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Introducing the spray-on plastic solar
cell
...
Scientists have succeeded in turning stem
cell
s into nerve
cell
s. This may allow cures for those with nervous system injuries and diseases...
This was understandably popular - people are worrying about hybrid human/animal experiments, including human/rabbit egg combinations and mice with human brain
cell
s...
The wind-up
cell
phone charger...
January 17 to 23, 2005
UCLA researchers have made microscopic robots powered by living heart
cell
s...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Scientist have created synthetic "vesicles" that resemble crude living
cell
s - the line between life and not-life is starting to get pretty blurry. "This is rather philosophical," says Dr Libchaber o...
December 13 to 19, 2004
New pliable solar
cell
s means solar tents, clothing, etc....
December 6 to 12, 2004
Handy Mac-based tools for those recording audio interviews that need transcription: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/10/ex
cell
ent_transcribi.htm...
Restaurants are installing fake phone booths for use by
cell
phone users to minimize noise pollution...
A slew of
cell
phone tour guide companies are taking off...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Scientists figure out how to make hydrogen from sunflower oil. Does this mean that one day I'll be able to power my car from my
cell
phone compost pile...
November 22 to 28, 2004
A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is now walking again, thanks to stem
cell
s derived from umbilical cord blood...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Stem
cell
s may be the key to controlling tumors...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that
cell
phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
Scientists have created the "photocapacitor", a more efficient solar
cell
/battery combination...
November 1 to 7, 2004
"
cell
Phones Increasingly Used to Snap the News...
Stem
cell
manipulation induces the birth of new neurons. This work may lead to Alzheimer's and spinal cord injury cures...
October 25 to 31, 2004
An article on
cell
-phone video dating...
A new singing contest in Korea has entrants auditioning using their
cell
phones. I hope entries are well-received...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
The genuinely scary "Wacko Jacko" mask: http://www.frightcatalog.com/Halloween-Masks/Mis
cell
aneous+Masks/36057_Wacko%2DJacko%2DMask.htm...
California mandates free
cell
phone recycling. Every state should pass such a bill...
September 20 to 26, 2004
A new permanent coating prevents glass from fogging up and can make solar
cell
s more efficient...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Why are political polls "a sham"? First, they don't call people with
cell
phones...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Regarding last week's item about fake tree-like
cell
phone masts...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Scientists are learning how to harness photosynthetic bacteria in solar
cell
s...
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time everywhere (1 second is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
32,000
cell
phone towers in the U.S. are disguised as fake trees. Here's an amazing gallery of them...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Finally, Coke vending machine offers cashless purchases via
cell
phones...
August 15 to 22, 2004
cell
phone users are using their cameras in store to copy textbooks...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A fuel
cell
breakthrough leads to cooler, smaller
cell
s - one the size of two soda cans could power your entire household...
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get online anywhere in the U.S....
June 28 to July 4, 2004
The first(?) application for turning your
cell
phone into a universal remote control...
June 21 to 27, 2004
More about Bob Vincent, the guy who recently designed a revolutionary new type of antenna. Implications for networks,
cell
phones, radios, more...
June 14 to 20, 2004
"Genetically-modified virus explodes cancer
cell
s"...
May 17 to 23, 2004
LANL researchers have figured out how to use nanotechnology to boost solar
cell
efficiency as much as 37%...
Will the RIAA create artificial scarcity in the $3 billion
cell
phone ringtone market...
May 10 to 16, 2004
More on acoustic cryptanalysis - studying keystroke sounds. From a
cell
ular phone, it's possible to tell what you're typing...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* American Express (causing can
cell
ations and delays...
Will false teeth be a thing of the past? Successful experiments have regrown teeth from stem
cell
s...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Noisy
cell
phones are becoming a problem in national parks...
A scientist has been studying the sound of
cell
s - they make noises and sound different when healthy or diseased...
Urban planners can reduce costs by planting more trees and using lighter-colored pavement... heard of Curtiba, the city widely held as "a paragaon of urban planning ex
cell
ence"...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Spreadsheets: 25 Years in a
cell
...
March 15 to 21, 2004
One quarter of
cell
phones in 2004 will include a camera...
Somebody market this, quick! A professor creates a small cheap noise can
cell
ation unit that decreases computer fan noise. Although this technology is available in many headphones, nobody to date ha...
The swoosh of wind turbines makes locals report ghosts. Again, noise can
cell
ation technology may alleviate that...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first music video ever to be entirely shot using a
cell
phone. Reminds me of the first movies made for the Web ten years ago - in another ten directors may be viewing dailies on their phones...
"For the first time, a microbial fuel
cell
has generated electricity while cleaning wastewater, a development that could make sewage treatment more affordable for both industrialized and developin...
February 16 to 22, 2004
In Rat Brain
cell
s, Researchers Fin...
I can't wait to upgrade my memory!
cell
s-on-silicon breakthrough "Researchers... have found that nerve
cell
s grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to th...
January 12 to 18, 2004
An uplifting story of how a frantic woman at an airport is saved minutes before takeoff by a laptop connected with Bluetooth to a
cell
phone connected to the Internet connected to her email...
December 8 to 14, 2003
This enables desktop-sized supercomputers and
cell
phones lasting 60 hours...
A man gets out of a ticket using a
cell
phone and a friend with a computer...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The world's first disposable
cell
ular phone just hit the market. It comes with 60 minutes of prepaid time, its own phone number, and you can add more minutes as needed...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"New switching rules may trash millions of
cell
phones...
October 14, 2003
"Software Brings
cell
ular Capacity To Rural Communities...
October 6, 2003
"Discovery may spur cheap solar power" http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/10/02/solar.
cell
s.reut/index.htm...
August 12, 2003
If you combine the ability to track others with their
cell
phone.....
August 4, 2003
We'll be seeing more good and bad uses of
cell
phone cams in the future...