Smart phonesW, able to tackle a wide variety of tasks that are generally divided into to many separate devices. As the "developing world" leap frogs the developed world in rapid deployment of cell phones - it is reasonable to assume that many devices we currently use could be incorporated into inexpensive and universally available smartphone devices. Consider investing in a smartphone and thus consolidating the following products - it may reduce an individual’s carbon footprint and allows for a quick simplification of one’s life (original list started here [1].
Hardware replaced with a smartphone
- land line - telephone
- camera
- clock/watch/alarm clock
- calendar
- boombox, mp3 player, cd or tape player
- dvd player
- tv
- address book/rolodex
- calculator
- voice recorder
- translators
- GPS
- notebook
- banking
- flash drive
- remote control
- radio
- ebook reader
- computer (web browser)
- library: books, encyclopedia, manuals, journals, papers, monographs, magazines and newspapers
- games/game consol
- police scanner
- travel tickets
- credit cards
- ID
- banking/ATM
- gambling cards
- keys for car
- tools (see below)
Tools
- flash light
- levels
- graphing calculator
- solar calculator
- light meter
- handbook for engineering
- decibel meter
- data acquisition
- image recognition -- use to extrapolate energy consumption from power
- spectral light meter
- compass
- tape measure
- telescope
- GPS for coordinates of large spaces
- taper measurer for small things - length of phone
- bluetooth comm -- use to triangulate
- pedometer
- 2 phones - sound - distance app
- 1 phone - length measurement with - scale
- database questioning
- scale
- throwing velocity, slapshot velocity
- speedometer
- measure pressure, temperature -- add tools
- walkie talkie
- Radiation Detection - check out comments about how to calibrate any phone to do it.