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January 12, 2010

Solar charging station on a dog

The Solar Dog prototype charger from Erik Schiegg is a solar panel attached to a dog sweater. I'm not sure how efficient it is, but I could see this being handy. [via recombu]

My Android phone is charged in no time... The dog feels good and I'm feeling good and planet mud is turned a little bit more into planet earth. But this idea would be interesting for farmers around the world, letting their animals collect electricity, too.

January 8, 2010

Alt.CES: Google Nexus One an iPhone Killer?

Take a look inside Google's brand new unlocked mobile phone, Nexus One, and see how it matches up to the Apple iPhone 3GS. More details at Google Phone

January 6, 2010

Alt.CES: Nexus One teardown

I love how our pals over at iFixit are always the first in line to buy new gadgets as they come to market, so they can race them back to the shop to take them apart and find out what makes them tick. Their excitement and curiosity is almost palpable, and of course, we all benefit from what they find. Kyle and company just plunked down a princely 530 bones for the exploratory thrill of field-stripping the Google Nexus One.

The Nexus One, manufactured by HTC, is the latest and greatest Android phone. It sports:

* A 1 GHz Qualcomm (QCOM) Snapdragon processor.
* A 3.7" 480x800 widescreen WVGA AMOLED display.
* A 5MP digital camera w/ LED flash that also records .mp4 video.
* 802.11n wireless capability for when you can't depend on 3G.
* 7 hours of 3G talk time from a removable 3.7V, 1400 mAh lithium battery.

Nexus One Teardown

Read Engadget's in-depth review of the Nexus One here.

Flash Player on Google's Nexus One

It's not quite ready for prime time, but if this video from Adobe is any indication, Flash Player 10.1 on the Nexus One is going to be slick. [via Android and Me]

January 4, 2010

Bluetooth Ericofon

SQNewton didn't just crack open a bluetooth headset and cram it into a cool retro handset casing; he developed his own hardware to produce a fully-functional, self-contained phone that uses the Ericofon's original rotary dial, gives dial and busy tones, mimics the original Ericofon ringer, and has voice-recognition dialing to top it off. [via Hack a Day]

December 18, 2009

Haute tech fur phones and flash drives

Furry Objects is a series by Danish artist Magnhild Disington that mixes scraps of fur with cell phones and flash drives. [via Core77]

The Copenhagen Wheel

The Copenhagan Wheel recently demonstrated at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change is a clever device that can store energy every time you apply the brakes and then reapply it in the form of motor assist as you ascend a hill on your bicycle. Developed by MIT researchers, the Copenhagen Wheel also acquires speed, distance, and direction data from an array of sensors inside the device and transmits it via Bluetooth to the cyclists mobile. [via geekygadgets]

Over the past few years we have seen a kind of biking renaissance, which started in Copenhagen and has spread from Paris to Barcelona to Montreal," says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT SENSEable City Laboratory and the Copenhagen Wheel project. "It's sort of like 'Biking 2.0′ -- whereby cheap electronics allow us to augment bikes and convert them into a more flexible, on-demand system.

December 15, 2009

Squeezable mobile device interface

Synaptics' Fuse prototype demonstrates novel input methods for mobile devices. Squeeze, grip, flex, or tilt to interact with the device using various Synaptics technologies. [via Gadget Lab]

December 14, 2009

The Mobile Mobile

What do you get when you hang up a bunch of outdated cell phones, and hook them up to the Internet? Well, you are in luck! James Theophane writes in to share his group's latest project, the Mobile Mobile. Using 50 company phones that had recently been replaced, they created an installation that plays the song "Carol of the Bells". The project is installed at their headquarters, however they also have an interactive streaming interface.

Wondering how one hooks up a bunch of old cell phones to do this kind of project? So were we, and they graciously agreed to fill us in on the details:

The plan was to make 50 mobiles to each play a different note of a Christmas carol, and flash in time. We set up a test mobile phone - an HTC Touch - to connect to a wifi access point whilst being powered by a charger.

We 'ping'ed the IP address of the phone for two days to verify that it would remain contactable. The phone did get a tiny bit warm, but it worked. We noticed that the ping time changed significantly between different power modes on the wifi of the mobile - from 100ms down to about 2ms on 'performance'.

The plan was to write a small program that ran on the phone that understood a small set on instructions and have a controller running on a PC sending the commands. The basic list of commands was: light on/off, change colour 'wash' and beep.

The first challenge was turning the backlight off - WinMobile is a multitasking OS running WindowsCE as the kernel. The power management subsystem allows you to suggest power settings, but the OS takes into account all the running programs needs.

Turning the backlight fully off proved problematic in the project timescales (a matter of days). Next was beeping. The PC has always had a speaker that could beep - it was connected to the chip that controlled the keyboard - so has had a corresponding function e.g. in windows the MessageBeep function.

WindowsCE was designed for a range of platforms and embedded controllers and it looks like beep was not a core function. Luckily the Microsoft developers included some sample code on how to implement a MIDI sound system expecting hardware manufacturers to license third party full musical instrument libraries. It looks like the manufacturers kept with the simple sine wave sample code implementation. This was good enough for our mobile phone beeping musical rendition.

The program on the phone was written in Microsoft .Net C# and consisted of two parts: one registering with a web service - logging the fact that it was still alive and its current IP address, and two a UDP listener - listening for commands from the controller over the network.

The controller was written to read the midi file of the Carol and send the individual notes to individual phones at the right time. Using UDP instead of TCP and the 'performance' setting on the phone meant that the commands arrived promptly on the phones.

December 7, 2009

Google Goggles mobile visual search

It was only a matter of time before Google came out with a visual search product. Google Goggles is geared towards the mobile market and allows anybody with the ability to snap a photo to receive relevant information. [via Android and Me]

Update:

November 23, 2009

iPhone macro lens carousel

This iPhone macro lens carousel mod is a great way to recycle that pile of scavenged optics you've got laying around. [via LifeHacker]

Cheap iPhone macro lens for barcode scanning

Cameraphone DVD macro lens hack

Macro-Lens iPhone hardware mod

November 19, 2009

How-To: Custom wooden case for wireless charging mat

Instructables user jvalal didn't like the look of his Powermat inductive device charging station, so he stripped out the guts and "re-skinned" it with a handmade wooden case.

November 13, 2009

Google Maps Navigation ported to G1 & MyTouch

If you own an older Android phone and were curious about Google Maps Navigation, but were afraid to ask, here's instructions to get it running. [via AndroidCentral]

November 11, 2009

Mot Droid teardown

Our buds at iFixIt wanted to see a teardown of a new Motorola Droid, so they offered a $300 bounty to the first person who'd field strip and document the deconstruction of their Droid. Dr. Wreck answered the call. Here are the results of his investigation.

Kyle, of iFixIt, writes:

The phone was quite a handful to take apart, having a multitude of hidden screws and latches. Interestingly enough, the sliding mechanism consisted of two rails that were imbedded within the screen portion of the device, providing a simple and effective method to slide out the keyboard. Sadly, no aliens or hidden messages to Princess Leia were found inside.

Motorola Droid Teardown

DIY Palm Touchstone car mount

This has to be the coolest car mount for any mobile device out there. Originally designed for home use, maker remington870_20ga from the everythingpre.com forums wired a stock Palm Touchstone Charging Dock to run directly off his car battery using off-the-shelf components. Not only do you get an unencumbered view of the screen, your mobile device gets a chance to charge itself without all the messy cables.

November 9, 2009

Photoshop mobile app for Android

Hot on the heels of the recent release of a mobile image editing app for the iPhone, Adobe unveils its photoshop.com mobile for Android. [via phandroid]

Compact cellphone microscope

This novel approach to cellphone microscopy from Dr. Aydogan Ozcan from the University of California, Los Angeles, foregoes bulky lenses and magnifies electronically.

For this electronic system of magnification, inexpensive light-emitting diodes added to the basic cellphone shine their light on a sample slide placed over the phone's camera chip. Some of the light waves hit the cells suspended in the sample, scattering off the cells and interfering with the other light waves.

Far From a Lab? Turn a Cellphone Into a Microscope [via picturephoning]

More:
Cameraphone microscope extension revisited
Cell phone camera turned remote microscope

November 3, 2009

iPhone 3G and 3GS unlocked with blacksn0w

Master iPhone unlocker George Hotz aka GeoHot has done it again. Apparently the current iPhone 3G/3GS baseband has been successfully cracked and new unlock code titled blacksn0w will soon become available through the blackr1n jailbreak. [via iPhoneSchool]

November 2, 2009

Android 2.0 shoehorned onto G1/Dream

Android hacker Akia Harada has successfully ported the latest version of Android to the T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream. It's an early build that needs optimization, but it does boot and gives those brave enough to install it a glimpse of the new Android 2.0 operating system. [via AndroidGuys]

October 28, 2009

DIY virtual reality goggles

Check out this cool Android-based head mounted display. Andrew Lim of recombu.com used an HTC Magic running Google Street View, safety goggles, and some cardboard to fashion one of the coolest HMD this side of Lawnmowerman. [Thanks, Andrew!]

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