Tag: TELEPHONE

PlentyOfFish.com is the new dating site du jour, or so it is for Britney Spears, who used the site to browse for dates in her most recent video. Along with the site's random (and not very attractive) appearance in Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' video, the site arrived again in Britney's 'Hold It Against Me' premiere last night. (The song, we believe, is based on a pick-up line often flung by sexually ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. This ...

It may have taken some time, but universities across the country seem to be finally coming to terms with the death of the landline. Last week, the University of Virginia removed around 3,850 phones from dorms across its Charlottesville campus in a move that school officials claim will save $500,000 per year. In the last few years, carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have also expanded ...

Good news, you lazy Wordpressers: the open-source blogging platform will now let you phone in a post -- just like the rest of us. (Badum! How could we resist?) Wordpress.com has just unveiled a "Phone Your Blog" tool that allows admins to dial in to Blog HQ, enter a super-secret access code, and record an audio snippet that will automatically post to your homepage. TheNextWeb notes that there's no ...

The thing that we rarely talk about when discussing the certain fate of print media is its ecological value. Most of us, we'd venture, have at least some nostalgia for printed matter, as well as mixed feelings for the spread of e-books. But one book that we're sure no one will miss is the White Pages. Verizon asked New York state regulators on Friday to end the distribution of millions of ...

In Austria, a telephone booth might soon be used for more than making a phone call. According to an AFP report hosted on Physorg, Telekom Austria proposed earlier this week that the country's phone booths be converted into charging stations for electric cars and other vehicles. The first car-charging phone booth was unveiled in front of Telekom Austria's headquarters earlier this week. By the end ...

We've seen how dialing a wrong number can lead to unnecessary violence, but every now and then, getting a number wrong can make everything just right. At 5 a.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, Lucy Crutchfield placed a frantic call to her daughter to tell her that she would send money for groceries, but that she would probably have to miss a mortgage payment on her house to do so. Instead of ...

If you don't acknowledge that the speed at which information travels has drastically increased over the last two centuries, you're either painfully oblivious or dead. But have you ever wondered to what degree, exactly, we've become spoiled by instantaneous access to information from around the globe? Well, your answer might lie in a chart that Beebo has pulled from the book 'A Farewell to Alms.' ...

Telemarketers-turned-inventors from the United Kingdom have started shipping TrueCall (£99.99), a device that acts as an automated secretary on your land line, either forwarding trusted numbers to your phone or answering untrusted numbers with an automated message and shooing them away. When an unrecognized number dials in, TrueCall asks them who they are and then rings you asking whether or ...

At first glance, we figured this heap was a dead-ringer for the next episode of Crapgadget, but after a few delicate moments of gazing at this amazing piece of retro-styled kit, we just had to let it pass. The $15 USB Telephone 4-Port Hub explains itself pretty well -- it's a non-functioning phone that doubles as a 4-port USB 2.0 hub. And it's really cute. And awesome. [From: Gadget4all.com via ...