Tag Archives: Mobile phone

Re-use your old smartphone (3 ideas)

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Hellmuth Broda

If you are like me then you also have a drawer with the several generations of phones that you went through in the last 15–20 years. Of course you should not let them acquire mold but keep their batteries charged … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet, Smartphone | Tagged App Store, Mobile hotspot, Mobile phone, Phone recycling, Roaming, Smartphone, Subscriber identity module, Tethering, wifi radio | Leave a comment

A Mobile Phone Construction Set: The Lego Approach

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Hellmuth Broda

SmartPlanet today reported on a Lego-type approach taken by Dave Hakkens to build phones from modules that fit together to form a phone and that can be replaced for instance to increase storage or to change the display. Read the full … Continue reading →

Posted in New and Noteworthy, Open Systems | Tagged Dave Hakkens, Electronic waste, Mobile phone, Open Standards, Open Systems, Phoneblok | 2 Comments

’10-Cent Medical Checkup’ Using Cell Phones?

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Hellmuth Broda

Caltech runs a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program where students work on special projects. As part of a cell phone medicine project, the students have spent their summer developing and fine-tuning prototypes that could someday enable a 10-cent medical checkup for … Continue reading →

Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy | Tagged Cell Phones, eHealth, Mobile phone, telemonitoring | 1 Comment

Power Walk, Gain a Watt or Two

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Hellmuth Broda

We knew it all along: Walking is good for you. While walking we turn 20 Watts of power per foot into heat. But now researchers in Wisconsin have found a way to charge batteries with a firm stride. Tom Krupenkin and J. … Continue reading →