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Let’s all give Japan a round of applause for coming up with such great and seamless eco-friendly designs. These solar street lights from Sharp are just another example of the growing Japanese effort at global environmental reform. The Sharp models LN-LW3A1 and LN-LS2A1 save up to 1800 lumens of pure sun power, and then use that power to give the ...

This GE branded universal remote control tries way too hard to be a cellphone. And not even a cool cellphone. But a cellphone from, like, 2002. This remote actually won a few innovation awards, because of its raised keys, interlocking rows, and external buttons. No offense GE, but this is one really, really ugly remote. Whoever awarded this remote with ...

Those of you into hacking your mobile devices will be pretty amazed by this. Second Life resident Wrestling Hulka has hacked his Nokia n800 device to run a limited version of the Second Life platform. How limited is the software when running on a mobile device? Let’s put it this way. Hulka says that he can pretty much only IM ...

Researchers have been working for decades to develop a productive use of one of Earth’s most renewable energy sources, the wind. The problem lies in having enough wind to power a large area of space. These flying windmills would fly at heights of 15,000-30,000 feet, and could easily supply enough power to everyone on the entire face of the Earth. ...

Rotary phones might have went out with prohibition, but that doesn’t stop people from tinkering with them. This project allows you to mod a rotary phone to work as a cellular device with a built-in GSM system, as well as a GPS device. The premise of this project lies in its connection to the GSM network and a Atmega 8 ...

Modern cellphone technology has sprung many cool features, and design has pretty much optimized the use of text messaging. Live 22 doesn’t only expand on the design, but on the concept of texting as well. The Live 22 concept design would be capable of texting objects other than cellphones including TVs and computers. Live 22 would be like a Twitter ...

Rumors of an impeding announcement for a scaled down and cheaper model of the iPhone have been circulating through Chinese media the past week. Sources tell us that Apple plans to release a second iPhone by as early as September with prices ranging from $249-$299. The root of this rumor seems to stem from a meeting between Apple and Wintek ...

For those who didn’t know that Fujitsu actually makes phones, yes they do in Japan, and they’re selling their new F704i waterproof phone with bikini girls. The F704i only adds WCDMA roaming to the F703i that they sold with a girl in the tub. The company claimed that the 17.9mm thin 3G phone is still usable after leaving under 1-meter ...

So do we Mr. T, so do we. Mr. T1 is a stand-alone bandwidth meter that provides a cross-platform solution to keeping an eye on your bandwidth levels. Mr. T1 will keep a constant look on yo jibba jabba-ring internet connecton. If your connection speed ever reaches that of a standard T1 or higher, the program will play one of ...

A lot has been said about the iconic iPhone, and frankly, we are sick of hearing about it. Though, we are sure as hell not tired of playing around with our phones yet. AppleHound has put together a list of 68 bugs and flaws in the iPhone interface and performance which you can test out at your own leisure. These ...