{"id":36,"date":"2006-04-05T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/05\/some-more-fun-designs-for-mobile-phones\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T11:28:55","slug":"some-more-fun-designs-for-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/05\/some-more-fun-designs-for-mobile-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Some more fun designs for mobile phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/21\/cool-design-project-with-mobile-phones\/\">these cool designs for mobile phones<\/a> that make you think about their use in public space. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpaa.org.uk\/mpaa\/2006-03\/about\/\">here is another line of (humorous) products<\/a> that make you think about the uses of mobile phones:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mpaa.org.uk\/mpaa\/UserFiles\/Image\/all-products.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Tru:th\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mpaa.org.uk\/mpaa\/2006-03\/truth\/\">Tru:th<\/a> &#8211; a phone with a build-in alcohol promilage meter you can only use when drunk and are more likely to tell the truth<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Rosary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mpaa.org.uk\/mpaa\/2006-03\/rosary\/\">Rosary<\/a> &#8211; a phone that portrays religious icons, so you can pray to them on-the-go<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Phish\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mpaa.org.uk\/mpaa\/2006-03\/phish\/\">Phish<\/a> &#8211; a phone that makes the water in your fish bowl raise by one degree every minute, so keep it brief!<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cactus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mpaa.org.uk\/mpaa\/2006-03\/cactus\/\">Cactus<\/a> &#8211; a phone with sharp spikes on its keys, so the one who is called knows he\/she&#8217;s really special to the caller<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are designed by a collective that calls itself the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpaa.org.uk\/mpaa\">MPAA<\/a> (Mobile Phone Abusers Anonymous). Here&#8217;s what they do:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our primary purpose is to foster awareness of the mobile phone \u2014 the devastation it can cause, and the salvation it can offer. We do this by offering meetings, mobile phone discussions, replacement products, activities and much much more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago I posted these cool designs for mobile phones that make you think about their use in public space. Now here is [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/05\/some-more-fun-designs-for-mobile-phones\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[81,41],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-public-space"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}