{"id":40,"date":"2004-11-21T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/networks\/40"},"modified":"2008-02-23T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T02:03:56","slug":"islamic-mobile-phones-and-kosher-stoves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/networks\/40\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Mobile Phones and Kosher Stoves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilkonetel.com\/ilkone.htm\" target=\"_other\">Ilkone<\/a> makes mobile phones designed for Islamic customers. Features include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Date Converter, to automatically convert between Hijri and Gregorian calendars.\n<li>Qibla Direction, to allow the user to know the direction towards Mecca for prayer.\n<li>The Quran complete text, in both Uthmanic Arabic font and English, with search engine.\n<li>Prayer Timer, with 5,000 cities pre-set, to alert the user when it&#8217;s time to pray; this can be done with a standard alarm, or with the &#8220;azan&#8221; voice calling to prayer, with Cairo, Mecca, and Medina variants.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Targeting specific customer bases is not a new phenomenon, but it takes some interesting turns in digital devices.  Wired featured an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.11\/kosher.html\" target=\"_other\">kosher devices<\/a> in the November 2004 issue.  There are some good notes on ethnographic research for culturally specific design in the compilation <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?tid=10029&#38;ttype=2\" target=\"_other\">Design Research<\/a> (Brenda Laurel, ed.). <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Laura Garcia-Barrio for the link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer Timer, with 5,000 cities pre-set, to alert the user when it&#8217;s time to pray; this can be done with a standard alarm, or with the &#8220;azan&#8221; voice calling to prayer, with Cairo, Mecca, and Medina variants&#8230;.  There are some good notes on ethnographic research for culturally specific design in the compilation Design Research (Brenda Laurel, ed.).<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/networks\/40\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islamic Mobile Phones and Kosher Stoves<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactiondesign","category-networks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}