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Digital Planet: Fairphone at the Lovie Awards

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25/10/2016 GMT

Fairphone at the Lovie Awards

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Fairphone as a model for an ethical mobile phone; BlindSquare app aids mobility for the blind; Smart phone detecting cancer; Digital art explores a cultural cross over in Nairobi

Fairphone is honoured at this year’s Lovie Awards in the Emerging Entrepreneurs category.  Fairphone tries to source all its component minerals from ethical mines and its handsets are also modular, so you can take them apart and replace components if they break.

BlindSquare
Blindsquare is an innovative smart app that helps blind people to navigate indoors and outdoors.  Click’s Simon Morton reports on its use in New Zealand.

Smartphone to Detect Cancer Biomarkers
The smartphone acting as a portable medical lab - researchers in the USA have developed a way of using a smartphone to detect cancer biomarkers.  Click talks to the lead researcher, Professor Lei Li from Washington State University.

Kenya Digital Art Festival
A new and challenging exhibition in Nairobi has explores our interaction and reliance on modern technologies.  Michael Kaloki reports from Nairobi, Kenya.


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