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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Phones

AT&T’s Pantech Breeze, A Hip Phone for Geezers on the Go

11:30PM Benny Goldman | AT&T’s geezerphone, the Pantech Breeze, is designed with the elderly in mind. The Breeze has three big speed-dial buttons, simple menus, a loud speakerphone and large font. Now you can hear Gladys’s mahjong story and read Morty’s steamy text messages from anywhere in Del Boca Vista. A step up from the Jitterbug and the ClarityLife, other mobile phones for the olds, it has a camera to snap pictures of your grandkids, or the carpet while you’re figuring out how to make a call. The Breeze sells for US$70 up front with a two-year contract, or US$155 if you do pay-as-you-go, which is a good option if you don’t know where you’ll be three weeks from now. Bigger pics and press release after the jump. [AT&T] More »
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Networks

40-Gigabit Granny Used World’s Fastest Connection to Dry Laundry

1:33AM Wilson Rothman | The most famous story to come out of Sweden in 2007—besides the death of celebrated cinema pioneer Ingmar Bergman, who I thought was already dead—was the 40-gigabit internet connection of the septuagenarian Sigbritt Löthberg. Giz reader speculation that she was going to “host her knitting circle as an HD interactive webconference” was close: in fact she used the hot-as-hell connection to dry her laundry. More »
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