When is a cellphone worth $5,000? Hint: never. Christian Dior has been rumored to be working on a mobile phone for some time, and following on recent speculation that the Christian Dior-branded handset could make its debut soon, the Dior phone has gone live. With a $5,000 price tag, we can't imagine anyone outside the comfortable [...]

When it comes to the classroom, there are just some things that should be checked at the door. Some say that religion doesn't have a place in the public school environment. Others say that sex-education is best left out of the classroom. And, New York education officials feel that cellphones should be left out of [...]

Just what does a cellphone-addicted couple's wedding cake look like? Well, chances are, if they really, really love their mobile phone, the cake will sport a cake-topper (those figurines that adorn the tops of wedding cakes) like this. The cellphone-toting cake toppers are actually satirically funny. What better way to make light of the high-tech times [...]

Raised Braille-bumps on handset keypads are good for dialing a phone number and other simple tasks, but it can be a little more demanding to tap out text messages or do anything more complex by feel alone. To help the blind get more out of their mobile phones, Nobuyuki Sasaki, a former Tsukuba University [...]

European jetsetters just got another step closer to getting their cellphone-calling fix while strapped into that airplane seat at cruising altitude. The European Commission has just approved the use of mobile phones in airplanes over European airspace. Following on the UK's OfCom announcement that in-flight calling is good to go in Great Britain, the executive [...]

In which we discuss how to get yourself out of a traffic citation for driving while using a mobile phone. In many parts of the world, it's now illegal to drive with a cellphone pasted to the side of your face - it's distracting for the driver and just isn't a good look. Even drivers in [...]

Wait, does anyone actually take baths anymore? I sure don't. None of my friends (girls and guys) do either. I guess it's popular in Japan. A new study from Sega polled 16,250 people regarding their mobile phone use. Following on the absence of 2G mobile phone sales in January, the new report finds that the island-nation [...]