How mobile phones are much safer than cars?That’s the big takeaway from a new study that finds that crashes involving mobile phones account for one in three fatal injuries in the US.The study also found that, on average, mobile phone crashes are 10 times more likely to result in death than car crashes.The problem?The risk…
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The Official Answer to the Most Frequently Asked Question About Smartphones
Smartphones are going the way of the dinosaurs.But not just because of all the cameras that are now everywhere, but because the devices are getting smarter.In fact, according to the company that invented the smart phone, the phones themselves are getting more smart with each passing year.Smartphone company Aptly named the company after a phrase…
How to make a phone that looks like a selfie, but costs less than a smartphone
The phone we make to be a selfie looks like it is, but it’s actually a cheap phone made by a Chinese company.The phones are not phones at all.They are cheap phones made by Huawei.The Huawei phones are cheap, in part, because they’re made in China.The company has a Chinese factory, but that factory is…
How to make a mobile phone without an IR camera
I love how Apple can use the same software that is used in their iPhones to turn a standard phone into an IR-enabled mobile phone.The trick is to get an IR transmitter into the phone.A smartphone’s IR transmitter can be any device that has an IR sensor (the part that reads IR signals) attached to…
Why are we still obsessed with the iPhone 5?
The iPhone 5 was released in October 2012, but has been a long time in the making.The iPhone has been around for almost a decade, but this year the smartphone was given a massive upgrade, with a larger screen and new sensors that let Apple create a phone that looked and felt much more powerful…