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The early bird gets the iPhone. And also gets media attention for an organic farm at the White House

You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San




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Super fly hearing powers captured in miniature microphone

This biomimicry success promises advanced hearing aids as the headphone generation ages




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Broken iPhones recycled for stylish home decor

There is a new use for your smashed iPhone: a clock.




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Solar-Powered Lamp Also Charges Your Phone, Acts as Sound Amplifier

A new solar-power kit from BRIGHT Products is like the Swiss Army Knife of solar gadgets.




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Smartphones can now detect diseases in minutes

A new plug-in diagnostic tool could mean better healthcare around the world.




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Batteries from old smartphones could light up rural areas

The batteries could provide back-up power for small solar power systems.




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Xylophone of the Forest, Stunning Ad for Docomo's Wooden Cellphone

This is probably one of the most beautiful and awesome ads I have ever come across, thanks to Frame and Form. Watch the Xylophone of the Forest, and before you shrug it off because trees might have been killed for the making of this clip, hear me




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Superbook turns your Android smart phone into a complete laptop

It may well be all most people need as a computer, and it may well be what we have been waiting for.




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What's that flower? Your smartphone will soon know the answer

It's impossible for a human to know all of the hundreds of thousands of species of flowers on our planet, so Microsoft has developed flower learning software.




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Latest drone view of Apple HQ shows a building as shiny as a new iPhone

Things are moving quickly; Apple employees might get updated offices before Mac users get updated computers.




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What you should know about the cobalt in your smartphone

Cobalt is used to build lithium-ion batteries found in mobile technology. Much of it comes from Congo, where men, women, and children endure dangerous and unhealthy conditions to satisfy our hunger for new devices. It's time we paid attention.




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Smartphones have made parenting harder than ever

Giving a kid a phone "feels a little like trying to teach your kid how to use cocaine, but in a balanced way."




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Resist disastrous planned obsolescence by making old iPhones sexy again

Fight Apple’s annual seduction dance by buying a perfectly restored iPhone from a company rallying against thoughtless consumerism and e-waste.




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Charge your phone with a bike between flights at Amsterdam airport

Whether for exercise, electricity, or simply out of curiousity, the bicycle powered charging stations in Amsterdam airport appear popular




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Teledisko: Defunct payphone booths repurposed as mini-discos

You thought disco was dead? Not with these old payphone booths, now transformed into ultra-exclusive, tiny dance clubs, complete with the disco ball.




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The smartphone that just got smarter – by testing water and treating food

A 24-year-old food scientist at the University of Copenhagen has developed a prototype that could potentially save millions of lives.




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Your phone could be made with child labor

Smartphones, laptops, and electric car batteries rely on cobalt, most of which comes from Congolese mines that employ children.




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Become a bat detective with this plug-in device for your smartphone

The Echo Meter can detect, record and identify the sounds of bats nearby.




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Scandi design + Portuguese cork: Buy your next phone case from 15:21

It's so much nicer to feel a warm natural material in your pocket than cold slippery plastic.




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Give charities free ad space on your smartphone's lock screen with Screen Donor

This app gives free ad space to deserving charities and NGOs on one of our tech-centric culture's most common screens - our smartphone lock screens.




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Could you travel without a smartphone?

A new study asked 24 travellers to take this challenge and report back on their experiences.




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Smart phones have replaced entire rooms worth of stuff

It's what we have called dematerialization, as all that is solid melts into apps




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3 rules for parental phone etiquette

Enough fretting about how kids use their devices. What about parents?




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Now you can read TreeHugger on your phone!

Our new mobile version is designed for the small screen.




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CES 2012: 2nd Solutions Spares Corporate Cell Phones from Certain Death

Salvaging old IT from corporations can mean big business, and a way to keep cell phones out of landfills.




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The hottest thing at CES is the FLIR thermal imaging iPhone case

Everyone in the green home improvement biz needs one of these, and they can make great cat videos on the side.




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61% of Mobile Workers Trust Their Employer to Keep Personal Information Private on Their Mobile Devices - What can employers see on smartphones

Smartphones hold increasing amounts of sensitive personal data, so every device is now a mixed-use device. As a result, businesses must protect employee privacy as fiercely as corporate security.




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Young people are growing horns, thanks to phones + tablets

You thought 'text neck' was bad? Kids these days are growing 'enlarged external occipital protuberances,' according to researchers.




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Fairphone 3, a more ethical, reliable and sustainable phone, is released

Too bad we can't buy it in North America.




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Why you shouldn't use your phone to shop online

Want to make the best purchasing decision? Use your PC instead of a mobile device.








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Ericsson wants to block iPhone sales in the US

Apple faces more infringement lawsuits, this time with patent holder Ericsson, which seeks damages and an injunction to block iPhone and iPad sales.





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India to roll out Covid-19 app for low cost Reliance JioPhone in bid to widen tracing

India will within days roll out a version of its coronavirus contact-tracing application that can run on mobile carrier Reliance Jio's cheap phones, as it looks to increase the reach of the system, a senior government official said on Thursday.




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Thoughts on Cameras in the Age of Excellent Cell Phone Photos

I noted here, I believe, that recently my dSLR, my Nikon d750, basically crapped itself, most likely from a faulty mirror mechanism. This wasn’t entirely a surprise to me — it had developed a hiccup several months back where the first photo after being turned on was a black rectangle as the camera remembered it […]






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return your phone

Today on Toothpaste For Dinner: return your phone