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Children In Need.. of old mobiles

If there is one thing that readers of this site are likely to have lying around their homes it is old mobile phones and PDAs. I am sitting next to a drawer full of dead Windows Mobile devices (plus a couple I wish were dead) and I’m sure there are a couple of retired Palms [...]

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 10:00 AM by // Pocket Picks //

Filed under: Mobile, Culture, PDA, handset, charity, Other stuff, Recycling, Children In Need, regeneris

Man drops phone down train toilet, havoc ensues

See, now, if the plans to jam mobile phone signals on trains go through people will start trying to get creative and we could end up seeing a lot more of this sort of thing. A passenger on a French TGV train somehow managed to drop his mobile phone down the toilet. Crouching down to [...]

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 6:41 PM by // Pocket Picks //

Filed under: Culture, funny, transport, Other stuff, Mobile phone manufacturers, Other, embarrassment

iSafe - your complete portable scaremongering tool for Android

Wow. If the Daily Mail ever start giving away Android apps as part of an ill-conceived promotional campaign, they could do worse that kick it off with iSafe. iSafe uses GPS to identify your location and then searches various databases to find out the BAD SCARY THINGS nearby. Bad scary things like Sex Offenders, Street Crime, [...]

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 9:49 AM by // Pocket Picks //

Filed under: iPhone, BlackBerry, crime, applications, social, android, Other stuff, isafe, paranoia

Mobile phones can cause skin irritation

Its official - mobile phones are irritating. Mobile use is being attributed with a rise is cases of skin irritation. So-called ‘mobile phone dermatitis’ is caused by traces of nickel in mobile phone casings. Around a third of the population has some level of allergic sensitivity to nickel - women are particularly susceptible as they [...]

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 2:41 PM by // Pocket Picks //

Filed under: mobiles, skin, Other stuff, rash, dermatitis, helath

Mobile phones the next target for BotNet hackers, say researchers

Great news, everyone! Your mobile phone may soon be helping some criminal scrote take down a Fortune 500 company! PC owners have long been prey to virus writers and in recent years the cunning coders have been harnessing infected PCs to create ‘BotNets‘ - armies of enslaved PCs that can be used for criminal purposes without [...]

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 6:35 PM by // Pocket Picks //

Filed under: Security, Smartphone, virus, Other stuff, Botnet

WPA wifi encryption cracked

If you use WPA or WPA2 encryption on your home wifi setup, it might be time to think about using a longer keylength. Security consultants Global Secure Systems say that a Russian team has successfully reduced the time it takes to brute-force (guess) a password by up to 10,000 times by using NVidia graphics cards to [...]

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 6:34 PM by // Pocket Picks //

Filed under: Security, wifi, mobile internet, cracking, hacking, Other stuff, nvidia, wpa, wpa2, global secure systems

Think of a number.. mind reading mobile interface proposed

“If any of you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.” NeuroSky are a company that specialise in bringing brainwave detecting (of the kind used in medicine) equipment to commercial products. The recently brought out a primitive video game controller that is operated purely by thought and are now working on a mobile phone interface using the [...]

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 12:38 PM by Pocket Picks :: The coolest things for the coolest phones

Filed under: concept, ui, Other stuff, Biz & Tech, mental, neurosky, brainscan

3M Launch pocket-sized projector

Presumably tired of waiting for someone to integrate its mini projector tech into a mobile phone, 3M is releasing a stand alone device - the MPro110. The projector seems a little on the dim side, according to PopSci.com but considering it is about the size of an N95 that could be excusable. The projector managed to [...]

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 9:40 AM by Pocket Picks :: The coolest things for the coolest phones

Filed under: projector, portable, Other stuff, Biz & Tech, 3M, MPro110

Apple rejects iPhone farting

Apple is yet to flip the fabled Kill Switch and wipe an iPhone App from the face of the Earth, but they are still reserving the right to turn their noses up at Apps they don’t like. One such is Pull My Finger - an app you might describe as an innovative multimedia, flatulence-based prank simulator. [...]

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 6:16 AM by Pocket Picks :: The coolest things for the coolest phones

Filed under: Music, Apple, iPhone, Messaging, Other stuff, Biz & Tech, censorship, app store, kill switch

CSI Stick can suck the data out of your phone

Just in case you needed a new reason to be paranoid, a security company has invented a device that can slurp all the data - photos, contacts and SMS - straight off your phone The Paraben Cellular Seizure Investigation Stick (I’m sure the acronym is pure coincidence) is marketed as a ‘law enforcement’ tool, but is [...]

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 10:03 AM by Pocket Picks :: The coolest things for the coolest phones

Filed under: Motorola, Security, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Culture, data, privacy, Other stuff, paraben, csi stick

iPhone production line worker leaves photos for UK customer

A bit of Friday niceness. Mac Rumors forum user markm49uk bought a shiny new iPhone 3G and got a surprise when he turned it on for the first time. “I just received my brand new iPhone here in the UK and once it had been activated on iTunes I found that the home screen (the screen [...]

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 11:25 AM by Pocket Picks :: The coolest things for the coolest phones

Filed under: Apple, iPhone, photos, Other stuff, Biz & Tech

Shoot the messenger with a bluetooth pistol

In today’s sociopolitical climate, this is probably not the best idea - particularly if you live in London and travel by tube - but if you have ever wanted to own a bluetooth headset that looks like a pistol then, thanks to the magic of the internet, you can. At craft blog Instructables, a fan of [...]

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 6:56 PM by Pocket Picks :: The coolest things for the coolest phones

Filed under: Bluetooth, Handsets, funny, mods, Other stuff, gun, instructables, craft

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