Man builds smartphone dock into arm

11 years ago

This is like a mash-up of the punchlines of several campfire stories: "The calls are coming from inside the bloody hook hanging on the car door!"

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Tags: mad science, parts, phones, robots, the future

11 Responses:

1. Steve Lieber says:

   11 years ago at 11:45 pm

   This is *the* must-have accessory for today's Jay J. Armes-wannabees.

   • jwz says:

     11 years ago at 1:26 am

     WHAT THE!

     I had an action figure of this guy! I had no idea he was real!

2. Lloyd says:

   11 years ago at 11:54 pm

   Well, it's running an arm processor. But I was also expecting thumb support.

   • Julian says:

     11 years ago at 2:08 pm

     This is where we are missing the Palm.

     • Lloyd says:

       11 years ago at 2:18 pm

       ...and, of course, the attached handspring.

       • Julian says:

         11 years ago at 9:16 pm

         But I like the attachment as it is. Gives a new perspective on ATH1/ATH0.

     • Lloyd says:

       11 years ago at 2:19 pm

       PalmOne, not PalmTwo.

3. Artie says:

   11 years ago at 6:57 am

   Is one smartphone enough? He could totally add a Palm to that setup.

   But seriously, give that man a hand.

4. gryazi says:

   11 years ago at 11:07 am

   Who wants to be the one to tell him he put the phone in upside-down?

   (Although for speakerphoning, I imagine that's dandy. I notice my LG won't rotate the screen upside-down, either for SAR enforcement or to discourage the clueless from holding the microphone to their ear.)

5. Lun Esex says:

   11 years ago at 3:05 pm

   Fortunately he'd heard about Netik's attempt to Dremel out an old iPhone 3G dock only to find it wasn't compatible with his new iPhone, so he made sure to base his arm mount on a Universal Dock that will work with all iPhones.

   Unfortunately, the phone he's got to use with it is a Nokia...

   Doh!

6. Gabriel Rosenkoetter says:

   11 years ago at 12:59 pm

   System error 25329: too many puns.