We have seen wood and bamboo PCs, so it was only ever going to be a matter of time before someone built a cell phone out of the stuff. I am presuming that the Maple Phone is made out of maple, but I could be wrong. What I do know is that it was designed [...]
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[ August 4th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]Maple Cell Phone Uses Less Plastic
Moki Mobile Kitchen Sees You Camp Cooking in Style
I have done a lot of extended camping trips and I can tell you that the novelty of camp cooking wears off pretty quickly. You don’t need all of the amenities of a modern kitchen, but to have some of them makes a really big difference. It comes with two burners, a grill and an [...]
iPhone Software Update Causes it to Brick Itself… Temporarily
There is an apparent new problem with the iPhone 2.0 software update. Don’t panic, it is just a glitch but it does do a little to besmirch that squeaky clean Apple reputation. Rumor has it that the problem is due to the fact that the reactivation servers are over work. So you get your software [...]
Cell Phone Eye-control and Other Assorted Craziness From Japan’s Docomo
Japan’s NTT Docomo is working on what they call, “the cell phone of the future”. In the Docomo view, the future is a wearable cell phone that can be controlled with movements of different parts of the body. One idea involves a pair of headphones that detect electrical current that is produced by [...]
3G iPhone a Kindle Killer, I Don’t Think So!
Greg Sandoval over at CNET has an interesting theory and by interesting I mean completely insane. His theory is that the second generation iPhone could end up killing off purpose-built e-book readers, namely the Kindle; a laughable suggestion.
First, let me categorically state that I do read and I do not own a Kindle. I want [...]
