VoIPing the iPod Touch
How makers gave you the feature that Apple held back.
A small part of the very large Forevertron.
Photograph by Marián Képesi
It’s a maker’s dream: turn your homebrew ideas into a concrete reality and then ship that product. This dream came true for iPod hackers Dr. Marián Képesi, “Eok,” and Samuel Vinson. They designed, built, and shipped an iPod touch microphone and developed VoIP (voice over internet protocol) software to place phone calls using that mic.
Last November, Képesi was poking around on his iPod Touch. A postdoc at Austria’s Graz University of Technology, he had previously worked with third-generation ...
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