Aaron Ross just won $50,000 from the FTC in a contest that asked people to invent something that would help put an end to those annoying telemarketing robocalls. His invention, called Nomorobo, sounds reasonably simple to set up and I’d really like to try it. Tell us how it works. If you have Simultaneous Ring …
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Mobile And Wearable Technology Accessibility Survey
Some researchers from the University of Maryland are in need of people to take part in a quick survey about the accessibility of mobile phone and wearable technologies. They say it should take you no more than 20-25 minutes, but I’d be surprised if it took me any longer than 15. It only took me …
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Sony And Amazon Don’t Think You Should Be Reading This Post, Blind Person
Why do companies that make products and provide services I enjoy have to be such complete and total discriminatory arseholes? Check out these utterly absurd reasons why Sony and Amazon don’t think they should have to comply with the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, which mandates that electronic devices be made …
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This Phone Is Delicious
You’ve seen the wooden iPad and the potato iPad. Now, meet the apple iPhone. Police from the Upper Mt Gravatt Crime Prevention Unit say the 21-year-old woman placed an advertisement on the site saying she was interested in buying a few iPhones. Not long after she put the word out, a woman called and said …
If The Dog Could Talk, What A Tale He’d Tell, About The Cars, And The Stairs, And The Holes As Well
I saw this article about an electronic harness that a service dog can wear that they can use to communicate with us, and thought so many things. My first thought, after reading only the title, was “if they could pull this off, that would be freakin cool! How would this work?” Then I thought about …
If You’ve Ever Complained About A Slow Waiter, You Can Now Have Your Head Taken Off By A Helicopter Instead
We’ve got a beer delivering drone, so why not an iPad controlled food delivering helicopter? UK-based chain Yo! Sushi is testing an airborne “flying waiter” that could soon be used to deliver orders to customers. To celebrate the release of its Yo! Burger, the company has created the iTray, an iPad-controlled food delivery drone that …
There’s A Learn To Take A Crapp App For That
Parents, are you worried that your 1-year-old doesn’t have enough to think about or distract itself with while you’re teaching it how to use the toilet? If the answer is yes, then I’m afraid help, such as it is, may be at hand. Introducing the CTA Digital 2-in-1 iPotty with Activity Seat for iPad, because …
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IOS Vs. Android: Who’s Better At The App Thing?
I posted part one of this series a couple of weeks ago, and now part two is available. It’s all about the app experience on the two platforms. Once again it’s a lot to take in, but again it’s an interesting read. The thing that sticks out to me the most here is the difference …
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IOS Vs. Android. The Winner Is…Up To You
So you’re blind and you’re looking for a smartphone, but you can’t decide whether to go with an iPhone or one of the Android devices. Everybody and his brother seems to have an opinion on the subject, but it can be hard to tell what sorts of experiences if any some of those opinions are …
An Insider Reports That President’s Choice Is Expanding Its Mobile Phone Offerings
So there I was, reading the news that Loblaws’ PC Mobile pay as you go cell phone division will start offering smartphones and contracts and trying to think up a few President’s Choice cell phone jokes to unleash on Twitter, when the part about the monthly plans caught my eye and stopped me in my …