Land Rover unveils 'world's toughest phone' Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
The new S1 mobile by Land Rover has been hailed as the world's strongest phone after it survived being dropped from a tall building, stood on by an elephant and roasted in an oven.
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Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancing Posted: 1 year ago by bevissimo
Mobile phone operator Orange said on Tuesday it had teamed up with GotWind, a firm specializing in renewable energy, to produce a recharger powered by dance energy alone.
-they have to change the name though...
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Mobile phone with SLR lens on. Posted: 2 years ago by thenegativeone
This guy, decided to put an SLR lens on his mobile phone. Not sure why, but its interesting enough.
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Phone sex: 730,000 Brits chat on mobile during intercourse Posted: 1 year ago by jamesmeadon
730,000 Brits have chatted to someone on their mobile phone WHILE having sex with their partner, it has been claimed.
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Dial M for murder: The Mafia gun disguised as a mobile phone Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
It's the mobile phone that could leave you with more than a warm ear.
As startled Italian police discovered, the device seized in a raid on a Mafia gang is actually a pistol.
The phone gun - complete with a dummy display - holds four .22 bullets.
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The world's first mobile phone was the size of a dustbin lid - and had a range of just half a mile in 1902 Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
It was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile.
The world's first mobile phone could hardly be more different to today's devices, which are small enough to slip inside a pocket and can call almost anywhere in the world.
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Mobile Phones Stunt Crops Posted: 2 months ago by pocksucket
Studies in india suggest that the now ubiquitous mobile phone is causing stunted growth as a result of the action of EMFs on seeds.
Following on from Nateebinature's post just below.
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Mobile masts apparently safe Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket
Science proves that people who whinge about mobile phone masts giving them headaches are just making up. Hurray for Science.
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Phone masts suggested as cause of Bridgend suicides Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket
22 teenagers have killed themselves in the South Wales town of Bridgend in the last 18 months, and whilst the popular press have been quick to blame social networking sites, an actual scientist has suggested the cause might be mobile phone masts having spotted a pattern of proximity higher than the national average.
Update to this and this.
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Linux Jumps on the Mobile Bandwagon Posted: 2 years ago by agent014
There is a big movement to develop mobile phone operating systems using Linux.
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Mobile Phones to be allowed to be used on planes Posted: 2 years ago by thenegativeone
Why? Why oh Why? Surely these people aren't that important that they must have their phone glued to their ear 24/7. Please, Just let us have peace from Mobile phone users in at least one place.
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Mobile phone video blogs. Posted: 3 years ago by Milkshake
Motorola has announced what they hope will be the next big thing in mobile phone technology.
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Man burnt after mobile phone ignites Posted: 3 years ago by teaya21
A mobile phone has reportedly ignited in a man's pocket, starting a fire that left him with serious burns on half his body and spread around his hotel room.
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Hands-free phone driver convicted of causing death by dangerous driving Posted: 1 year ago by bingo
A lorry driver who caused a fatal accident during a hands-free mobile phone call was jailed for four-and-a-half years yesterday.
Road safety groups responded by calling for a blanket ban on phone calls at the wheel.
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Countries used to go to war to get land and resources... Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
...now some of them just buy the land they need.
The acquisition of farmland from the world's poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe's farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say.
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DoCoMo's new phones offer motion-sensing game play Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's biggest wireless operator, on Monday unveiled a new mobile phone equipped with a motion sensor that lets users play games like the popular Nintendo Wii console.
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Shock at $85k mobile phone bill Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
A Canadian man has been shocked to receive a mobile phone bill for nearly $85,000
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"Hi darling...I'm on Everest" Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
A British mountaineer has become the first man to make a mobile phone call from the top of Mt Everest.
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Mobile phone makes "bad man" more versatile Posted: 3 years ago by donteatpoop
A brief account of the improvements that mobile phones made for Robert McClain, reported a-hole.
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Mars Opportunity Rover can finally see it's destination Posted: 8 months ago by equinox
For six months the Opportunity Mars Rover has been trundling carefully through the dunes on its way to distant Endeavour Crater. Finally, the rover's camera has caught a glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of it's next destination - although it is likely to take another two years to get there.
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So, How Did the Mars Rover Get Up There Again? Posted: 2 years ago by ogri2003
Maas Digital created this dramatic, scientifically accurate computer animation to illustrate NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. A truly awesome feat of modern engineering! This whole process is mind boggling!
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