AMHERST — A UMass professor will be giving new life to old tech, repurposing outdated smartphones to study the environment with the help of a $600,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
The average person holds onto their cell phone for two to three years, according to most reports. However, there’s some evidence to suggest that people are moving toward the longer end of that time ...
In a time when the average smartphone is replaced every two to three years, researchers in Estonia have found an innovative way to give old devices a meaningful second life — by turning them into tiny ...