And Teenage Girls All Around the World Yelp in Delight
We think cell phones are the most useful and annoying things created by man. We can’t live with them and simultaneously wish we could live without them. Although we’re okay with them as long as college professors do things like this when people misuse them.
So everyone must be thrilled that one day the world will all have cell phones.
Right now, it’s just wishful thinking, but a $10 cell phone is definitely on the minds of researchers at UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
An official at UC Berkeley confirmed the project with EE Times after a report emerged earlier this month saying CITRIS is exploring the feasibility of such a phone with a few Taiwan contract manufacturing heavyweights, including Hon Hai Precision Industry, Compal Communications and Quanta Computer.
“The idea of a ‘$10′ cell phone is a visionary part of a long-range goal in CITRIS to take low-cost Internet connection technology to emerging regions of the world,” said Gary Baldwin, executive director of CITRIS. “We have had some discussions regarding low-cost manufacturing, but this is very much in the formative stages, and we are years away from reducing our research to practice.”
If the aliens didn’t know we existed out on this pale blue dot, they will now. All those ringtones combined should be able to penetrate the vacuum of space and reach their sensitive equipment. The invasion is coming.
UC Berkeley confirms $10 cell phone project [EE Times]
(Image from Son of the South)
(Note: Yes, we know that video is staged. Still wish more profs would do that.)
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