Monthly Archives: November 2004

Islamic Mobile Phones and Kosher Stoves

Prayer Timer, with 5,000 cities pre-set, to alert the user when it’s time to pray; this can be done with a standard alarm, or with the “azan” voice calling to prayer, with Cairo, Mecca, and Medina variants…. There are some good notes on ethnographic research for culturally specific design in the compilation Design Research (Brenda Laurel, ed.). Continue reading

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