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Site-Perf.com – Know all about your site performance
Website performance analyzing tool. This online tool emulates natural browser behaviour downloading your [...]

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Hugms

Hugms connects to your mobile phone via Bluetooth and then when you squeeze it, is sends a "hug" text message to the person of your choosing.

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In Case of Emergency (ICE) numbers in your cell phone

UK paramedics have launched a campaign with Vodafone to encourage mobile phone owners to program emergency contact details into their phones:
By entering the acronym ICE – for In Case of Emergency – into the mobile’s phone book, users can log the name and number of someone who should be contacted in an emergency.
So that paramedics [...]

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OneWallet: cell phone's new trick may make billfold obsolete

After all, since more than a quarter of the people on the planet already carry cell phones, and hundreds of millions are joining them every year, why should they bring along credit and debit cards when a mobile device can make payments just as well? This is not new, in fact this is already a [...]

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Mobile.Seed at Index 2005

INDEX: is a world event for design and innovation set to take place every four years in Copenhagen. INDEX: is launched in 2005.
Among the nominees: Mobile.Seed – It is a fully biodegradable mobile phone that contains a visible seed inside. One can plant it as a different disposal mode, and after a while a flower [...]

Teens jailed in Dubai for 'indecent pics'

17-year-old boy and 19-year-old girl, both UAE nationals, were each sentenced to spend one month in jail. The teenagers were exchanging "indecent" pictures through their cellphones and sending pornographic pictures through email. The Dubai Court of First Instance heard that one of the girl's friends was jealous of the relationship she had with her male [...]

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Talking Loud But Saying Nothing

NASA is developing a subvocal speech system that could enable you to make a phone call while keeping your lips sealed. How do you talk to someone without opening your mouth? Psychics call it telepathy. NASA refers to it as subvocal speech. Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in California have developed a system [...]

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AwareFashion

AwareFashion are clothes that react to invisible communication technology in the surrounding and thus enable the wearer to sense their immediate digital environment. The detection device is hidden in a detachable pocket and the fiber optics sewed into the cloth. When a mobile is near, small light spots appear on the sleeve.

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