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NYC Reinvent Payphones: Prototype Hack Day

• DotNetPete1 14y ago
  reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaWnd3LJfs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaWnd3LJfs
• jack-r-abbit 14y ago
  Interesting. I think it would be nice to see every payphone turned into a wifi hotspot wired into a city wide network. This serves two things: 1) City wide wifi (Don't we all want that?) 2)Payphones are then just VOIP handsets with a payment machine attached. Win-Win Payphone fees could probably be reduced but maybe not. Maybe the money collected from the payphones is used to (partially?) offset the costs of running the city wide network.
• neovive 14y ago
  It's great seeing innovation challenges such as these; they're a win-win for everyone involved.
• apaprocki 14y ago
  In case you didn't see the funny skit introducing this at this month's NY Tech Meetup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJx91LDXREk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJx91LDXREk
• jonnycowboy 14y ago
  A great payphone hack would be to make it a dead-drop. Ie: put in a hard drive and a usb port and small controller. Then plug in your usb key, dial a number, it gets copied to the HD. Next person to insert his key and dial your number gets the data you copied.