Engineers Are Teaching Smartphones to Think Like an Autonomous Car
A team of researchers from Cambridge University is borrowing some of the techniques used in autonomous vehicles to…
What Police Can Learn From a Terrorist’s Discarded Mobile Phone
The dramatic raid on an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis that left two dead and eight arrested followed the…
North Korea's Internet and Mobile Phone Network 'Paralyzed'
Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting that North Korea's internet is down. Again. But this time the country's 3G…
Watch 30 Years of Mobile Phones Come Together as a Digital Orchestra
What do you get if you take 30 mobile phones and 4 pagers from across the last 30 years, and wire them together with a…
Is It OK to Talk on Your Phone When You're at the Checkout?
The UK media is weirdly ablaze this morning over a story about a store attendant who flipped out when a customer…
"Pocket Telephones" Made for Cheap Calling All the Way Back in 1910
You've almost certainly got a telephone in your pocket (or clutch), but don't think for a second that it makes you any…
The Cellphone Turns 40 Today
Forty years ago today, senior Motorola engineer Marty Cooper made one very important phone call. From midtown…
How Did Samsung Keep The Galaxy SIII Secret?
Apple can't seem to keep its new phones under wraps to save its life: there are leaked images, phones left in bars, you…
With a Ceramic Transducer, You'll Hear Voices Inside Your Head
Japanese electronics company Kyocera has developed an innovative new transducer to replace outmoded—and…
If You're Reading Gizmodo On The Toilet, You're Not Alone
According to the New York Times, 91 per cent of Americans aged 28 to 35 use their mobile devices on the toilet. So, a…
A Mobile Phone From 1922? Not Quite
I recently came across a short, silent film from 1922 called Eve’s Wireless. Distributed by the British Pathe company,…
Americans Like To Secretly Record People In Embarrassing Outfits
Americans love to use their mobile phone cameras. We take videos of our pets, videos of our kids and shockingly 50…
Tweeting Photos via SMS Could Revolutionize News
If you own a smartphone, the possibility of tweeting a photo via SMS probably means nothing to you. But, if you're…
Crossing a telephone with a TV set in 1968
In this most gloriously futuristic year of 2011 we somehow find ourselves awash in videophones. In a way, they snuck up…
Smartphone Sales Beating Dumbphone Sales For the First Time
Nielsen's new national survey of U.S. mobile phone customers reveals that smartphones are outpacing traditional feature…
Mobile Phone Owner Captures Video of Home Burglary
If you want to protect your belongings, you should probably buy a mobile phone with a nice video camera and learn how…
Gorilla Glass Hands On: UNBREAKABLE
Maybe if you had a free weekend and Mjǫllnir, hammer of Thor, you could crack Corning's Gorilla Glass. But that's a…
Estonia Will Be the First Country to Elect Politicians Using Mobile Phones
Instant democracy is getting closer. In 2011, Estonians will be able to elect their representatives using cellphones.…
Nokia Smart Home Solution Puts Power of Control Onto Your Cellphone
With energy conservation and easy eco-friendliness on just about everybody's agenda these days, one of the most…