The Amphibious Architecture Project explores interaction between above and underwater worlds.

Frontline SMS is a piece of software which turns a laptop computer and a mobile phone or modem into a two-way group messaging hub.

Although there have been plenty of reports linking cellphone usage to such things as brain tumors, a recent Australian study found a different kind of hazard related to mobile phone use in children.
The Mobile Radiofrequency Phone Exposed Users Study (MoRPhEUS) analyzed the cognitive capabilities and mobile phone use of 317 children ages 11-14. The young people who used their phones more often- with the setting that completed words automatically (predictive texting), completed tests quicker, but with a larger number of mistakes.
Epidemiologist Michael Abramson, who performed the tests for Monash University in Australia, told ABC Science that the results showed predictive [...]

The Economist, the international affairs magazine, recently established a market for subscriptions in India through a unique SMS marketing campaign.  The tiny share of The Economist in India’s news media marketplace drove the magazine’s utilization of a miniaturized mobile news update.
Every day at 11 a.m. the magazine would issue a free summary of headline news and accompanying links to a new mobile updates channel.  The snippets of interesting stories brought mobile readers to the newsstand, bringing sales up by 15%.  Over the course of the year, The Economist increased circulation in India by 39% and subscriptions by 26%.  Campaign India [...]

In today’s hyper-connected world, news and information can come from anywhere, at any time. No longer do television, newspapers and even mainstream websites have a lock on reporting what’s happening around the globe. When reporting is as simple as sending a Twitter update, we all can be a kind of new school journalist.
A story that comes out of the recent Israeli-Palestine conflict brilliantly illustrates this state of affairs. As an Israeli ban on reporters in the Gaza strip has severely limited the amount of information coming out of the area, a series of text messages from Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert [...]