Cell Phones Blog

This is the story of an electro sensitives’ obsession with knitting cosies for electronic objects. This obsession was passed on by Zoe Papadopoulou grandmother who discovered that by knitting cosies with wool and wire she could stop her domestic appliances from emitting electromagnetic radiation.

Zoe Papdopoulou took on her Grandmother’s hobby and weaving a thin thread of copper in the wool and grounding it, she ensures that the electromagnetic fields are blocked on all home appliances; her cell phone, toaster, radio, coffeepot, microwave, even her satellite dish.

View images of the cosied household products on we-make-money-not-art.com. The cellphone cozy appears in a video interview of the designer.

According to the designer, the shields work better on some objects than on others. The microwave and radio cozies for example block the waves very well. It seems to depend on the density of the knits and the thickness of the copper wire.”

[via we-make-money-not-art.com]

Source: Knitted Shields (or Cosies for Electronic Objects)

President Bush pressured the House on Wednesday to pass new rules for monitoring terrorists’ communication, saying “terrorists are planning new attacks on our country … that will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison.”

In order to be able to discover … the enemy’s plans, we need the cooperation of telecommunication companies,” Bush said. “If these companies are subjected to lawsuits that could cost them billions of dollars, they won’t participate. They won’t help us. They won’t help protect America.”

[via The Mercury News]

Source: Bush pushes House to OK immunity for telecoms in eavesdropping legislation

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies and Qingdao Hisense Communication today announced the design specifications of the Hisense C108 mobile phone that will become the industry’s first handset with Qualcomm MEMS Technologies’ mirasol display.

The Hisense C108 mobile phone is a lightweight, low-power, candy-bar style handset that weighs less than a quarter pound (80 grams). The C108, based on Qualcomm’s QSC6010 chipset, uses the 1.2-inch mirasol display that features a resolution of 130 ppi (128 x 96 pixels). The mirasol display functions as the main display of the phone, showing such things as text messaging, phone book entries, time, date and other important information. The phone also supports multiple languages and has 32 Mb ROM and 8 Mb RAM.

The product, which will begin shipping in 2008 to China and emerging mobile markets, will be on display Feb. 11-14 at the Mobile World Congress 2008 conference in Qualcomm’s booth, located in Hall 8, Booth B53.

Source: Hisense Reveals Design of First Mobile Phone to Incorporate mirasol Displays

I am a big fan of Bluetooth technology and am actually using a Think Outside Bluetooth keyboard to type this article on my new Fujitsu U810 Tablet PC. Blair sent me some big news from the Bluetooth SIG announcing that they are developing a new radio substitution method that will allow devices with both Bluetooth and WiFi radios to access and use both those radios for much faster data transfer rates. The new architecture is called Alternate MAC/PHY and the core specs for it are expected to be published in mid-2009.

They are continuing to work on ultra wideband technology for high speed Bluetooth speeds, but see this new dual-radio solution as an interim fix to help people achieve faster data transfers when the load demands it.

Source: MWC08: Bluetooth SIG creating spec to harness speed of WiFi

James