Saturday, May 18, 2024
By Evan Ackerman Maybe your cell phone plays music. Maybe it plays videos. Maybe it lets you surf the web. And maybe it even lets you make the occasional phone call. But can it check your blood sugar? That's right,...
By Evan Ackerman The "Actface" concept phone from KDDI au (the second largest mobile operator in Japan, if you've never heard of them) is pimpin' three full sized touch sensitive LCDs. It looks like it's got a camera on the...
By David Ponce Apple may very well be getting sued over the fact that the iPhone's battery is not user-serviceable, but until the class-action suit is settled and the company kicked and beaten into blubbering submission, you still have to...
By Evan Ackerman Seeing who's #1 on your girlfriend's speed dial is about to become slightly more difficult: you'll be needing one of her eyeballs. Oki Japan is introducing iris recognition software that's compatible with any phone with at least...

By Evan Ackerman Yeah, I have a cellphone. I use it in public to look like I'm busy and important, and in private for the occasional phone call. Not much else. It would take, I dunno, three mildly interesting cellphone...
By Shane McGlaun Back during CES we talked a bit about the Pico Projector from Microvision and how cool it would be to project your content from your phone onto a wall or other surface for big screen viewing. At...
By David Ponce Here's to being somewhat unconvinced Japan's Sophia Nani will make the same sort of impact as the iPhone. Yet, there it is: a smartphone set to be unveiled today at Wireless Japan 2007 with a full...
By Evan Ackerman It's only a matter of time before this becomes a reality, but whose side will they be on? Oh, and for those of you who can't see YouTube stuff, you just got to know that it's a really...
By David Ponce We think that no video in recent memory has evoked simultaneous feelings of utter glee and excruciating pain as the one embedded above. BlendTec has become famous in the last few months for its brilliant marketing...