Category: Phone
Emirates flight EK751.
Airline allows the first authorized use of cell phone calls on a commercial flight.
Post date: Friday, March 21st, 2008.
Tri-cell.
Technology developed that tracks the location of cell phones. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 9th, 2006.
SpotScout.
Mobile service that helps you locate available city parking spaces which you can sell to others when you’re done. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, July 11th, 2006.
Federal Excise Tax.
US Treasury Department has repealed a tax on long-distance phone calls that was created to fund the Spanish-American War of 1898. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 25th, 2006.
Ringxiety.
Emerging phenomonen of hearing a cell phone ring that isn’t there. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 4th, 2006.
TextPayMe.
Service that lets you send and receive money by text messaging with your cell phone.
Post date: Friday, February 24th, 2006.
PaperClick.
Cell phone technology that allows users to capture bar codes and get web-based manufacturer’s content delivered to their screens. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 7th, 2006.
Ur in.
Nebraska college is text messaging acceptance notices to new students.
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Permanent press.
Woman suffocates under 6-foot pile of her own clothes. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006.
Solarjo Power Purse.
Women’s purse that can recharge cell phones and iPods. (via)
Post date: Friday, December 16th, 2005.
Reach out and rob someone.
New Zealand man tries and fails to rob a bank by phone.
Post date: Friday, December 9th, 2005.
Traffic Vizzion.
Service lets you monitor traffic cameras from your cell phone. (via)
Post date: Thursday, November 10th, 2005.
It’s just fog.
Fire destroys historic replica that was initially disregarded by a 911 operator as ‘fog’. (via)
Post date: Thursday, October 13th, 2005.
In da Bginnin.
The Bible has been translated into the abbreviated text message language of cell phone users.
Post date: Thursday, October 6th, 2005.
Sorry, gotta go.
A Web site that plays sounds to help you get off the phone faster with someone you don’t want to talk with. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
Choose your own adventure.
British TV show is allowing its viewers to interact with the plot and chose the outcome by voting with text-messaging.
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
HAL.
“Computers will be able to out-think the entire world population put together within the next 60 years.” (via)
Post date: Saturday, September 17th, 2005.
R-E-C-Y-C-L-E.
New text-messaging service in London allows users to request schedules of when their recycling is collected or locate the nearest recycling facilities. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 15th, 2005.
Powerpack.
Researchers have developed a backpack that turns the up-and-down motion caused by walking into electricity that can power an MP3 player, PDA, or charge a cell phone.
Post date: Friday, September 9th, 2005.
Find-A-Human.
The portable and continually-growing database of major companies and how to bypass their automated answering to get a real person on the phone. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
Egg MacGyver.
Hard boil an egg using two cells phones and a radio. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
The easiest arrest ever.
By taking pictures with a cell phone they stole, thieves in Argentina unknowingly published themselves on the stolen phone owner’s personal Web page.
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
Customer incentive.
Overdue phone bill customer in England receives late notice telling him to pay up or else he will be ‘hospitalized‘. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Got a 308 area code?
Beware of the repeat, message-leaving prank caller that no one can understand.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Come on.
Boy inventor given a grade of C for inventing a hamster-powered cell phone charger.
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
Voice ID.
Decipher whether or not the person on the other end of the phone line is really interested in your conversation with the Jerk-O-Meter.
Post date: Thursday, August 11th, 2005.
Jesus speaking.
Phone number mistakenly shown in the movie Bruce Almighty actually belongs to Florida woman who receives ‘15 to 20 calls an hour from people asking for God‘. (via)
Post date: Monday, July 25th, 2005.
A case for hands-free.
The newest medical epidemic that’s likely to cause some major missed work issues in the future: cell phone elbow. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, July 5th, 2005.
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