I read a great post on Digital Spy the other day, in their gaming section – the Top Ten handheld innovations (for gaming, obviously). Given our handheld game devices cousins are not that far removed from some of the current crop of Mobile devices, I thought I would pull a few of these out. To…
Human Evolutionary Limit hit; need tech upgrade
The folks over at TechDigest have got a great take on a recent report that humans have hit their evolutionary limit – they have suggested some tech upgrades for us! I’ve picked out a few of my fave ideas ideas below, but you’ll have to link over to their site to check out the full…
Follow-up: Smileys can be “Straight-on” too…
Following on from my post the other day about Japanese Smileys, NetLingo were kind enough to let me know via email about “Straight-on” smileys too – these are again generated using text characters to form shapes that you may not associated with the component characters on their own. If you want to add some aesthetically…
Babies and Mobiles – part 3 (following up part 1)
You may or may not remember some time back I wrote a post on Baby Monitors, where I lamented the specifications of the Transmitter/Receiver devices – using them, in my opinion, was like a throwback to 10 years ago with the state of Mobile phones! Well we are now 9 months on, and I thought…
Beef up your text messages with Japanese Smileys
I just got a great email from NetLingo.com – all about Japanese Smileys! For those of you that don’t know, NetLingo.com is a great source of Interweb jargonry (OK, that’s not a word) – in fact, they put it better themselves: NetLingo has thousands of definitions that explain the online world of business, technology, and…
Steampunk Bluetooth headset
Call me a sucker for the seriously old-school, but damn this is cool. Before you ask, no, the Mechanical Aural Communication Device doesn’t actually work, it’s just a costume prop, but hey, maybe this guy will cook up a proper one in the future. Still interested? You can nab it for $75. [Flickr via Mobile…
Pet Dog Wins Top Prize in Mobile Tossing World Championships
The 9th annual Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships were held in the Estonian town of Narva. This was in fact the first time the contest was held outside Finland, we are told. Nothing unusual so far you might think…. Timmo Lilium won the men’s category with a throw of 85 meters, and Valeria Kadorova taking…
Wordle provides mashup ‘word cloud’ of IntoMobile posts
Above you can see the ‘word cloud’ generated by a neat little web app called Wordle. Using this app, you can paste a selection of words, or an RSS/URL in to the interface, and generate your very own customisable word cloud – I think this warrants the classification ‘uber-neat’ 🙂 You can make your very…
Phones microwave Popcorn and pop it?!
In recent weeks, there have been a series of videos on YouTube, showing how how you can use a cell phone to pop popcorn! In the video (here), you see 4 cellphones used to pop kernels on a coffee table by calling the handsets. The videos ended up being emailed around the world, with the…
Bluetooth pistol makes people think you’re suicidal
Sure, you could opt for a run-of-the-mill Bluetooth headset to get your chat on without needing to press a handset against your head. Or, if you’re a bit more daring, you can turn a realistic AirSoft pistol in to a working Bluetooth headset of sorts. We imagine others’ reactions to seeing an otherwise unassuming wireless…