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Blink have just launched a really great sounding Bluetooth game, based on the traditional English game of Conkers. If you just went “WTF?”, Conkers has its own entry in Wikipedia, that sound suspiciously like something Douglas Adams made up. But here are the rules of the original game: 1. Take a large, hard conker [Horse [...]

Sometimes you come across a gadget that you just have to blog about – while acknowledging it’s got nothing to do with mobile whatsoever! But how cool is this? You attach it to the cork in a bottle of champagne, (or sparkling wine, if you’re a cheapskate) pop the cork and watch it float down [...]

I’ve been following stupid criminals with mobile phones for a bit now, but this one’s a little different. Apparently mobile-phone manners have slipped so badly that people can’t even be bothered to get off the phone to rob banks these days. A woman in Virginia has robbed four banks while talking on her phone (reg. [...]

Taking the mobile obsession to its logical conclusion, more and more people in Ireland are being buried with their mobile phones. There’s two schools of thought for the reason. Sometimes the phone goes along as a treasured personal possession (“you’ll have to prize it from my cold, dead hands”), much the same way as a [...]

In what now appears to be an ongoing series of tales about stupid criminals and phones (the one that started with the subway perv), the latest story comes from Liverpool, England, where a guy was just convicted of throwing his phone at Manchester United star Wayne Rooney during a match. Nobody likes Man U, granted, [...]

Happy Halloween. To make sure your phone doesn’t feel left out on this spookiest of all days, now you can get it its own costume (reg req’d, BugMeNot), part of a growing trend of dressing everyday objects in seasonal decorations. Available from sites like Fun Friends and AnniesCostumes.com, most of them are plush stuffed animals [...]

Carlo and I have been kicking around what would happen if a car company only employed people from the telecoms background. This is what we came up with. 1. New cars would come with wheels that you need to change before you can drive it on A roads and you’ll need to reconfigure the brakes [...]

If you’re going to steal a mobile phone, I guess it would be a good idea to make sure that it didn’t belong to a high level US diplomat and that it wasn’t GPS enabled and thus couldn’t be tracked back to you. But that’s precisely what happened to two Bulgarian policemen, according to CNN. [...]

Many of us have commented on the idiocy of broadcasters, publishers and media owners trying to stagger country and region launches to suit their own purposes. The new Harry Potter book is not due in German for some months, but already, you can download German translations, produced by teams of people for free, just because [...]

German ornithologists say wild birds have learned to imitate mobile phone ringtones as they adapt to their environment, which over the last several years has featured a growing number of phones. Jackjaws, starlings and jays are reported to be the best mimics, and good enough to fool even “practiced birdwatchers”. But, birds aren’t as full [...]