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Hey it happens, sometimes you have a little too much to drink. Now a new smartphone accessory could save you from getting behind the wheel if you’re over the limit. The Breathometer plugs into the headphone jack of your smartphone (much like Square) and lets you blow before you go! It comes with a companion app…
Auto manufacturer Volkswagen has embraced mobile technology in a major way. It recently unveiled a travelogue app for journeys in its cars. The company’s even gone so far as to partner with Apple on the upcoming iPhone ready iBeetle model of its Beetle. Now the company will be unveiling an iOS app that uses Augmented Reality to…
One of the most frustrating aspects of Facebook is finally being remedied. The social network is rolling out the ability to edit posts after the fact, saving us all from auto correct nightmares! We’ve all been there, laboriously composing a long-winded rant or poignant observation, only to get a barrage of LOLs at the word…
Yep, it was going to happen sooner or later – an iPhone decides it is going to headbutt a tiled floor, and ends up coming off much worse! In some respects, it’s fascinating to see how the impact has played out across the glass – but on the flipside, it’s incredibly inconvenient as obviously the…
Every once in a while, something comes along that makes you stop and think – iFixit has been doing that for a while for me, because they’ve done of the greatest tear-downs of Apple devices (particularly) to-date. However, little we were to know that there was a more noble cause being driven in the background,…
Our buddies over at picoprojector-info.com have come up with a little gem of an advert (if somewhat wacky) for a new Pico-projector phone in China. The projector module is LCoS-based (the projection module is made by iView), and it supports audio/video/photo files, and also some documents. It’s also a TV receiver. The phone is Quad-band…
And now for something a little bit different…. Vodafone UK (and in fact other Vodafone OpCos internationally) have rolled out an initiative called ‘World of Difference’ – it’s a charitable programme which lets volunteers go and help out in places that need it: Vodafone’s World of Difference programme gives people the opportunity to spend time…
I just received in this cheeky little gadget from Maximobileshop.com – it’s a mini external microphone for the Apple iPhone (and some iPod) devices. It’s quite a simple concept – much like a wired headset with an inline mic, this does away with all the cabling and just gives you a module you can plug…
Star Trek fans will instantly recognize the stern-but-fair steely gaze of Patrick Stewart, better known as Captain Picard. As a part of a new PBS program called digital_nation, Stewart explains that he can’t distill parts of his life down to 140 characters, but still embraces the mobile lifestyle with the iPhone and mobile e-mail. As…
Every once in a while I do like to check out the posts of Dr Jim Taylor – he blogs a lot about this relationship with technology, and being a psychologist, often breaks things down in interesting ways. Most recently, Jim was recounting his experience with being ‘disconnected’ for a change – it only happened for…