Americans Suffering From Possibly-Imaginary Sensitivity to Wi-Fi Run for...
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View ArticleArchive Gallery: Improving the Telephone
Dek ArrayIn the infancy of the telephone, discerning businessmen had not the time to deal with getting tangled in its cord, and innovators hadn't yet come up with the coiled cord solution. They came...
View ArticleVideo: A Nanotech Treatment For Your Phone Lets It Survive Dunking In Water
Liquipel Water and personal electronics are probably the two most essential elements in this modern life, yet the two don't get along very well at all. Drop your Blackberry in the drink--or even...
View ArticleHands-On Impressions of the Lumia 900, Nokia's Great New Windows Phone
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View ArticleSorry, But Google Goggles Won't Provide The Terminator-Like Vision You Were...
Google Goggles Demo AR Information in your face. Sorry wannabe Google Gogglers, but your Terminator-styled visual overlays are not going to be here as soon as you might have wanted. Google is still...
View ArticlePocketHound
PocketHound Courtesy Varitronics Systems The PocketHound is the smallest, most powerful cellphone signal detector. From up to 75 feet away, it can reveal students cheating during exams, employees...
View ArticleGrand Award Winner: The BioLite CampStove
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View ArticleThe White House Responds: Yes, You Should Be Able To Unlock Your Own Smartphone
Unlocked Phones Petition via WhiteHouse.org A petition created by Sina Khanifar to make unlocking phones legal has garnered over 114,000 signatures on the White House's website--and the White House...
View ArticleWhat To Expect At Samsung's Galaxy S 4 Event Tonight
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View ArticleSamsung Announces Galaxy S 4; It Has All Of The Features
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Teaser Samsung At a massive event at Radio City Music Hall, featuring a live orchestra and a simulcast on a huge billboard in Times Square, Samsung showed off its newest flagship...
View ArticleWhy Government Phone Spying Is Really About Big Data
National Security Agency Headquarters Wikimedia Commons For the past three months, Verizon has handed over information on all telephone calls within its system to the U.S. government. This news, which...
View ArticleNokia Introduces The 41-Megapixel Lumia 1020, Due For U.S. Soil
Nokia Lumia 1020 Nokia At an announcement today, Nokia announced its newest, fanciest, yellowest smartphone to date: the Lumia 1020. Nokia makes great hardware, some of the best the Windows Phone...
View ArticleWay Too Many Britons Creepshot Hot Strangers
Creepshot! Wikimedia Commons Here in New York, there are lots of reasons to take pictures of strangers who aren't expecting it. The crazy lady pooping on the L train platform at Union Square? The guy...
View ArticleUse These Apps To Help Inspectors Find Nuclear Warheads
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View ArticleText Message Tells Ukrainian Protesters Their Cellphones Are Being Tracked
Not in Iowa? Then Tough Luck Texting 911 Flickr/SleepynekoProtesters and others in the area of the protest in Kiev on the morning of January 21, local time, all received the same text message: "Dear...
View ArticleSouth Korea's 5G To Let Citizens Download A Full Movie In One Second
So Wired From an illustration for Popular Science by John PicacoSouth Korea's science ministry is investing $1.5 billion in building 5G wireless service for the country by 2020, AFP reports. Some of...
View ArticleSouth Korea May Try To Curb Smartphone Use With Mobile Gaming Curfew
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View ArticleHide From GPS With This Signal-Blocking Phone Case
Just four data points from a location-tracking cellphone were enough to reveal the identities of 95 percent of people in a recent study. Is that a problem for you? This new Kickstarter campaign offers...
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Inspecting nuclear weapons sites, while an important part of international treaties limiting a nation's number of warheads, can be expensive and tricky, depending on the…
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