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A spokeswoman said the app will initially be compatible with recent iPhone models and newer Android phones.

One of the student inventors, Camellia Rupcich, says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.

That's the vision of a hotel chain that plans to send digital keys to guests' phones via an app instead of making them check in and get the traditional plastic swipe cards.

The E-Kaia solves two problems for the engineering students: they needed an idea for a class project; they also needed an outlet to plug in their phones.

Three university students in Santiago, Chile, have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones.

Cell phones provide instant access to people.

Teenagers in Australia, similarly ,said that their mobile phones provided numerous benefits and were an affiliated part of their lives; some were so attached to their phones that the researchers considered it an addiction.

Researchers in one study in Tokyo found that more than half of junior high school students used their phones to exchange e-mails with schoolmates more than 10 times a day

Cell phones also can diminish social tolerance because they reduce children's interactions with others who are different from them.

In addition to connecting peers, cell phones connect children and parents

Researchers studying teenagers in Israel concluded that, in that hazardous environment, mobile phones were regarded as "security objects" in parent-teen relationships―important because they provided the possibility ofcontact and communication at all times.

Many cell phones allow users to surf the Web, but only some newer ones are capable of wireless connection to the local area computer network.

According to the researchers, the participants' phones apparently substituted for real friends.

As constant travelers and parents of a 2-year-old, we sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do when one of us gets on a plane, undistracted by phones, friends, or movies.

Both bus tours forbade the use of cell phones but one tour provided digital cameras and encouraged people to take photos.

In a world where people are increasingly dependent on their phones, though, such strategies often fail.

One 2013 study of college students found that 80% of students use their phones or laptops during class, with the average student checking their digital device 11 times in a typical class.

Our phones are like cigarettes—something to do when we're anxious,bored or when our fingers need something to toy with.

Professor sometimes implement policies designed to minimize students' use of digital devices, and some instructors even confiscate tablets and phones.

The more people are on their phones, the fewer people are talking until finally you're the only one left not reading email or checking Twitter.

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

This refers to all the attention young people devote to their phones, tablets and laptops.

And mp3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.

Cell-phones are part of a growing mountain of electronic waste like computers and personal digital assistants.

Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992.

Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office.

From what I have seen, few do homework; instead many are on their phones and talking, making it impossible for those who actually want to do work to complete any.

In the 1950s in the usa, most families had just one phone at home, and wireless phones hadn't been invented yet.

In the United States alone, over 100 million cell-phones are thrown away each year.

Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.

The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.

The professor warned the students that on no account should they use mobile phones in his class.

The report said they also faced pressure to respond to messages at all hours of the day—especially at secondary school when more youngsters have mobile phones.

They were prevented from using mobile phones.

To enjoy the convenience of digital payment, many senior citizens started to use smart phones.

Walking while using phones hurts one's eyes.

"Phones become our security blanket," Wortmann says.

As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge – the wider issue of dearth of integrity still st

During a separate observation, she saw that phones became a source of tension in the family.

Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they cling to their phones, even without a signal on a subway.

Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people .

Radesky has studied the use of mobile phones and tablets at mealtimes by giving mother-child pairs a food-testing exercise.

To avoid this uneasiness, we turn to our phones.

Today we live in a world where GPS systems, digital maps, and other navigation apps are available on our smart phones.