Tag: JAMMER

A church in Auckland, New Zealand is in hot water for illegally installing a cell-phone jammer to prevent mobile-addicted worshipers from interrupting services. The Mount Albert Church is being slapped with a $1,250 fine (about $894 in U.S. currency) by the Economic Development Ministry, which banned the sale and manufacture of such devices in August. The jammer would have likely gone ...

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) ...

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 ...

They may be illegal, but cell phone jammers are becoming more and more popular. These devices, which can cost as little as $50 and be as small as a pack of cigarettes, work by sending out strong radio waves that interfere with cell phone antennas, resulting in a "No Signal" warning on the phone. According to the New York Times, overseas exporters of the cell zapping boxes say shipments to the ...