Cambridge engineers make old phones into smart phones

By Dave Lee, the BBC World Service

These old handsets can be made into touchscreen devices with the special acoustic software Are you ashamed of your primitive, non-touchscreen phone? Does your lack of flashy technology expose you to mockery at the hands of your co-workers? Engineers in Cambridge may just have the answer to your woes – and you do not even need to splash out on a new mobile. Acoustic processing specialists Input Dynamics has developed software which can tell exactly where you tap on a screen simply by listening to the sound it makes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11453148

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