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Your Smartphone Is An Artificial Limb

If you take smartphone technology out of its traditional "clever phone" context, it could change the world.READ»

Driving App Lets You Know If You're A Demon Or A Granny On The Road

A new iPhone app uses the device's accelerometers and other sensors to work out how safely you're driving. Fortuitous timing, as it's just emerged that Apple is the world's second-biggest buyer of these sorts of tiny sensors.READ»

Accelerometers Everywhere: Get Used to Wiggling Your Gadgets

Some new research by iSuppli has an interesting implication--sparked by the iPhone's innovations, accelerometers are going to be the thing to have in cell phones over the next year. In fact, one in three phones will have them. The ...READ»

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Longshot Rumor: iPod Shuffle's "DRM Chip" is a Microphone

The new iPod Shuffle caused a whirlwind of controversy last week for no particular reason--the Shuffle's not the world's most important product, and requiring special headphones is no great shakes. Enraged commenters even thought ...READ»