An Off Switch for Pain; Charging Cell Phones with Fingers
Discovered: An off switch for pain, a finger-powered cell phone charger, what your ear of choice says about your brain, the clouds are coming for us, and buckyballs in space. An off switch for pain? This sounds too good to be true, because it is. At least, real-life therapeutic applications are "a long way off," says researcher Timm Fehrentz. But science has a theory that could lead to a light ...
Cell phones for soldiers
Coyle Funeral Home and Cremation Services set a goal to collect 2,000 used cell phones by mid-March.
Battle over cell phone chips heats up
FORTUNE -- The battle for the teeny-tiny chips that power cell phones is heating up. Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker Nvidia just announced the ZTE Mimosa X, the first phone that runs on its Tegra 2 processor and an Nvidia-made modem chip (and quite possibly the first phone named after an alcoholic beverage).
Town to consider cell ban
Cell phones are one step closer to being banned for drivers in Chapel Hill
Old cell phones cause problems for 911
Old cell phones in the wrong hands are causing problems for emergency dispatchers. That's because they can still call 911 even if they don't have service. The service can help people in need, but children playing with old phones are calling 911 and people are also using them to prank dispatch centers.