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For Digital Dandies, Weird Handkerchief Blocks Cell Phone Signal

Share We've talked at great lengths about the changing nature of etiquette in the digital age, and one of the more nuanced guidelines has to do with answering your phone while in somebody's company. When you're hanging out with friends at a bar, and a straggler calls to get directions, it's certainly not impolite to answer the phone right then and there. When you're having a serious, one-on-one ...

Cosmetology School Jams Cell Phones, Prompts $25K FCC Fine

About a year ago, a Texas cosmetology school decided to illegally install a cell-phone jammer to keep students from disturbing class. Now, after another jammer was discovered in Florida, the device's British manufacturer has drawn the ire of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and faces a large fine. According to Ars Technica, the FCC proposed a $25,000 fine against Phonejammer.com ...

Key Jams Cellphones, Ends Texting/Talking While Driving

Face it, kids. You missed the best time to be a teenager by around five or so years. As it stands now, technology is cutting into that adolescent fun, with device like Ford's MyKey and this one here ensuring that you're actually safe behind the wheel. In all seriousness, the terribly named Key2SafeDriving is a fine concept (at least in the parent's eye), as it fuses a cellphone jammer (of sorts) ...

Japan Installs Cell Phone Jammers Near ATMs to Prevent Fraud

If you're tired of being scammed at ATMs by kind, gentle-hearted con artists (and then forgetting it ever happened), you'll be stoked to know that Japan is looking out for you. Chiba Bank has installed phone signal jammers at four unnamed ATMs at bank branches in the Tokyo region, and while it has gone down as the first institution to go to such lengths, we highly doubt it'll be the last. It's ...