More and more aspects of our lives are being turned into games with the use of technology, look at Foursquare and SCVNGR, simple location-based mobile apps which reward you for checking-in or completing tasks. However, it now seems as if mobile gaming could be taken to a whole new level by GreenGoose, which aims to [...]

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MoblleActive.org recently had the opportunity to test an off-the-grid GSM base station. Kurtis Heimerl presented The Village Base Station (VBTS), (link is a PDF) a low-power means of providing mobile network service without grid power or network infrastructure. Below, Heimerl demonstrates the basic workings of a GSM networks and OpenBTS, an open-source platform that allows [...]

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You may have plants dotted around your office in order to break up all of the technology with some calming, green flora, but how about a computer that actually has a plant “built” into it? The Secondary Growth concept is exactly that, a hybrid between a regular computer and a plant. The soil is separated [...]

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Sprint and LightSquared are expected to announce a 4G LTE deal worth up to $5 billion on July 28, suggesting Sprint is moving full steam fights to fight off the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.

According to CNET, Virginia-based LightSquared, an independent 4G LTE provider, will begin work on the backbone of Sprint's network almost immediately, with testing starting early next...

LG today announced the Optimus Pro and Net, two new mid-range Android devices, as the company continues to bank on Google's mobile OS to turn around its sluggish smartphone business.

The Optimus Pro runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features a full QWERTY keyboard in a portrait-style form factor, with a 2.8-inch and 800-megahertz processor. It has 150-megabytes of storage and is outfitted with a 3-megapixel camera and support for Wi-Fi. The Pro will ship in white, black, and...

A new remote-controlled helicopter shows how smartphone apps are not only changing the way people work, but also how they play.

Griffin's new remote control helicopter, the Helo TC, gets its power from apps on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. The Helo TC is controlled with various on-screen controls and even tilts to fly, which means the chopper can be moved depending on how the Apple device is held.

The helicopter comes with a flight deck module, and a dock for the iPhone or...