An exploration into the possibilities for individual construction and customization of the most ubiquitous of electronic devices, the cellphone.
It gives you vids that sound as good as they look and even fits over your iPhone case!
(Source: photojojo, via thenextweb)
"Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool"
— Police Tracking of Cellphones Raises Privacy Fears - NYTimes.com
“A peer-to-peer network of virtual spaces (autonomous from the Internet) for open political discussions. Anyone within range of an Occupy.here wifi router with a web-capable smartphone or laptop can join the network “OCCUPY.HERE,” load the locally-hosted website http://occupy.here, and use the message board to connect with other users nearby. The open source forum software offers a simple, mobile-friendly interface where users can write messages and post replies.”
occupy.here | distributed wifi occupation
(via new-aesthetic)
“Vibrating magnetic tattoos may one day be used to alert mobile phone users to phone calls and text messages if Nokia follows up a patent application. The Finnish company has described the idea in a filing to the US Patent and Trademark Office. It describes tattooing, stamping or spraying “ferromagnetic” material onto a user’s skin and then pairing it with a mobile device.”
BBC News - Vibrating tattoo alerts patent filed by Nokia in US
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Project: eApp: Emergency Alert & Personal Protection | RocketHub - the “I’ve been arrested” app.
(via new-aesthetic)
DIY: Make a Motion Sensored Spy Camera
Here’s an advanced tutorial on making a DIY spy camera that can remotely upload photos to your computer via an Eye-Fi.
via NotCot
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Activist Media from the Frontlines: Mobile, Strategic, and Much More Than Just “Being in the Right Place at the Right Time
World’s First Flying File-Sharing Drones in Action | TorrentFreak
A few days ago The Pirate Bay announced that in future parts of its site could be hosted on GPS controlled drones. To many this may have sounded like a joke, but in fact these pirate drones already exist. Project “Electronic Countermeasures” has built a swarm of five fully operational drones which prove that an “aerial Napster” or an “airborne Pirate Bay” is not as futuristic as it sounds.
ChatSecure is an open-source encrypted messaging application that uses Cypherpunks’ Off-the-Record protocol to secure a communication channel over XMPP (Google Talk, Jabber, etc) or Oscar (AIM). (via ChatSecure)
Welcome to LectureLeaks, your personal OpenCourseWare repository. You can now record, save, and upload your college lectures directly from your iPhone or other iOS device. You can also browse our library of recordings and learn any time, anywhere. (via LectureLeaks)
"Cop Recorder is a network-enabled authority recorder. With this app, you can secretly record audio whenever you are dealing with an authority figure, and then anonymously upload it to the OpenWatch.net server to expose police corruption and brutality!"
