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Mark Argo has created hugsm, a suspicious looking device that sends wholesome hugs to friends and loved-ones through SMS. The blobular bluetooth-enabled device allows you to send some love in the form of HHHHHhhhhhuuuuugggg-like SMS message. When you squeeze bugsm the strength and length of squeeze...

When you are 7-foot-1, 340 pounds, and are a millionaire you can do whatever the heck you want, including put a cell phone in your basketball shoe. Shaquille O'Neal showed up last Sunday at the NBA All-Star game with his new modified basketball shoes. The unspecified cell phone is mounted in the...

T-Mobile's forensic experts and the FBI have been putting in the hours trying to determine just how Paris Hilton's Sidekick (pictured right) was hacked. The potential security hole would be another blow for T-Mobile who had their systems intruded into before. There are a few theories of how someone...

Mikko Hypponen, director of the Finnish security specialists F-Secure, this week discovered a Nokia cell phone in a technology gadgets store in Santa Monica, California, infected with the Cabir mobile phone virus. Cabir is a Bluetooth-using worm that runs in Symbian mobile phones that support...

Boost Mobile has released another retro-themed handset onto the market. Called the Vintage Telephone Handset, clever and catchy, this accessory plugs into your Boost Mobile handset and gives you instant attention. You'll be both pointed and snickered at. "Vintage telephone handsets have been seen...

The Tokyo Gift Show always debuts some crazy keitai (cell phone) gadgets. Called the "Keitai Vyuun", or Cell Phone Zoom, these handy stick-on wheels can turn any boring, run-of-the-mill cell phone into a miniture skateboard for your pet hamster, ferret, or rat. By pulling the cell phone backwards,...

Two months ago we reported that Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan had 'lost' their T-Mobile Sidekicks at the Shelter in LA. Well, it was only a matter of time before Hilton's digital confidant's contents, naughty pictures and all, turned up on the net. The images include a number of digital shots of...

Bell announced today that they're the first in Canada to launch the Blackberry 7250 on their 1x Network. This particular Blackberry features a built-in phone, Bluetooth, colour screen, increase memory for full HTML page viewing, along with all the other bells and whistle features of the Blackberry...

You might be interested to know that the famous, or infamous if you like, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit girls are now available for downloading onto your Bell, Rogers, or TELUS handset. Of course our American friends are covered by AT&T, Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Want one? Ok, we...

Today, your perfect match was probably just meters away and you missed out. Alas, Proxidating has created the first bluetooth proximity dating software for cell phones. Just download the software, fill out your profile, and when then next matching person with Proxidating walks by...whamo! You both...

Yahoo News has just reported a diamond encrusted, gold plated cell phone which as gone up for sale on a South Korean auction site. The phone is studded with more than 240 high-quality diamonds set in gold, with its window made from sapphire crystal glass. Phone designer Choi Moon-young, 49, told...

I have stopped being amazed at the creativity that comes out of Canada's most central hinterland city of Winnipeg. Well, yet another Winnipegger is making a global impression, but this time in the cell phone market. Lorane Poersch, C.E.O., runs CrazyFunBabe (turn down your speakers if you click on...

The Weekly World News, the finest crackpot tabloid of them all, just published a story that refutes all conventional, anecdotal, and empirical evidence that motoring while on your cell phone reduces your ability to drive safely. In the words of WWN: "Chat-tering on a cell phone while tooling down...

This next story comes from two of the UK's most trusted news sources: The Sun and Ananova. Ok, I'm being a little sarcastic. The word is that a man from Swansea has discovered he sends text messages in his sleep. Richard Griffiths, 23, is an avid texter who has started to send the messages that...

In south eastern Thailand a cell phone was shot dead after being the messenger of bad news. Early last week in the tourist city of Pattaya, a known loan shark shot his cell phone 6 times with a .38 caliber pistol. Witnesses to the incident claimed that the man, known only as 'Woot', became enraged...

Sony-Ericsson and Rogers Wireless announced today the release of the Sony Ericsson Z500a to the Canadian market. The Z500a was released in Q4, 2004 in the U.S. to Cingular and received both warm and mediocre reviews. We expect the same in our user reviews at cellphones.ca. The Z500a is a tri-band...

In the future, mobile phone users will be able to leave messages anywhere in the form of what might be termed electronic post-its. They will be able to post virtual messages referring to a specific location wherever they are needed. Siemens researchers have now created the technical basis and the...

Dutch manufacturer Biotronik had its SMS capable pacemaker implanted in a patient at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam recently. The device monitors a patient's heart and in the event of a heart rhitm failure, the pacemaker sends out SMS messages to the attending cariologist and a special...

This phone will probably not be making it into our cell phone database so it's best written about, then laid to rest--pardon the pun. A German inventor has created the Phone Angel which allows grieving freinds or family to stay in contact to their deceased. The inventor's rationale is that some...

Do you remember the lightcyle scenes in the movie Tron? Flynn and Tron ride on a grid battlefield against the Master Control Program's enforcers. Well, a 19 year old Austrian, Uwe Hermann, has just won the Gold Prize in the International Competition of Cyberarts with his GPS::Tron game...