Parasitic Cellphone Patent Promotes Community or Gets You Beaten
This cellphone patent from Motorola lets a cellphone keep an eye on its own battery power, and when low, turns the phone into a parasite on neighboring phones. When the juice on your phone gets down to a certain point, the phone switches off all non-essential functions (like dialing and texting) and finds a compatible phone within Bluetooth range to use as a proxy. Once a phone is found, that's where it gets interesting. 10/17/2006 5:30:00 PM ---
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