NYC Reinvent Payphones: Prototype Hack Day(reinventpayphones.prototypehackday.com)
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NYC Reinvent Payphones: Prototype Hack Day
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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
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.
It's great seeing innovation challenges such as these; they're a win-win for everyone involved.
reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaWnd3LJfs
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.