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The jury may still out on the health effects of cellphones, but in one way at least they may be able to do you some good – by helping pick healthy foods on the supermarket shelves. Software developed at the VTT lab in Tampere, Finland, allows a cameraphone to snap the barcodes on food products and send it as an MMS message to a central database. The shopper then receives an SMS detailing the product’s nutritional value.

To get music from a CD onto your cellphone’s memory card you first have to rip it onto a PC. Panasonic’s latest hi-fi system…

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