Texting isn’t just about teens anymore – today is the twentieth birthday of text messaging. The quick and oft-used method of communication is all grown up, but it doesn’t show any signs of stopping. Let us reflect upon and celebrate the great gift of portable and nigh-immediate transcontinental communication in written form. The first text […]
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SMS Surf With Smozzy
Own an Android smartphone on T-Mobile, but no data plan and you want to web surf? There’s an app for that. Smozzy (in beta) acts as a wrapper around the standard Android browser, but cleverly redirects the traffic into SMS messages instead of a typical 2.5G, 3G, or 4G cellular data connection. Because T-Mobile offers […]
Talk To Me, Inanimate Objects!
By Jon Clinkenbeard on August 9, 2011 in Culture, Entertainment, Future Tech, Odds And Ends, Science
At New York’s Museum of Modern Art, a new exhibit entitled “Talk to Me” focuses on the way humans interact with technology, either in communicating with each other or speaking with the objects themselves. If that sounds like a pretty broad subject, it is. Everyone will definitely find something intriguing among the 200 or so […]