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nokia

ShakeSMS Lets You Shake Your Nokia to Read Text Messages

Shaking a phone to read text messages is as intuitive as swiping your finger across the screen to unlock it, but once you're trained it becomes second nature. In this case, ShakeSMS is an app for Nokia phones that lets you jostle your phone to view an incoming SMS. Jigger it again to go back to the home screen. That's pretty much all the app does, but it does it well. [ShakeSMS via Phonemag]

2:30 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Jason Chen
4,374 views, 16 comments

cellphones

Kinetic Mobile Phone Patents Convert Coffee to Battery Power via You

Similar to these cellphone concepts, this kinetic phone patent allows cellphones to be charged by movement. Sure, kinetic recharging is great for watches, where power consumption is low, but cellphones? Sounds iffy. More »

7:00 PM on Fri Feb 23 2007
By Jason Chen
3,656 views, 8 comments

gadgets

The Die is Cast: LED Shaking Dice Kit

If you're sick and tired of those damned analog dice, now you can build your own up-to-date dice for the mid-00's with the LED Shaking Dice Kit. It's a $15 set of parts that includes all the components you need to assemble a single die (get two for some real dice throwing). More »

1:58 PM on Thu Jul 20 2006
By Charlie White
462 views, 4 comments