Take your eyes off your mobile phone, says inventor, 50 years on

50 years of mobile phones: The evolution from bricks to flips

Mobile phones have been forged by a half-century of innovation, from brick-sized handsets popular with stockbrokers to intensely powerful computers that sit in all of our pockets today

Take your eyes off your mobile phone, says inventor, 50 years on

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Take your eyes off your mobile phone, says inventor, 50 years on

The problem with mobile phones is that people look at them too much. At least, that's according to the man who invented them 50 years ago.

Take your eyes off your mobile phone, says inventor, 50 years on

DEL MAR: The problem with mobile phones is that people look at them too much. At least, that's according to the man who invented them 50 years ago. Martin Cooper, an American engineer dubbed the "Father of the cell phone", says the neat little device we all have in our pockets has almost boundless potentia

From bricks to flips: 50 years of mobile phones

From brick-sized handsets popular with stockbrokers to intensely powerful computers that sit in all our pockets today, mobile phones have been forged by a half-century of innovation. Read full story

Take your eyes off your mobile phone, says inventor, 50 years on

The problem with mobile phones is that people look at them too much. At least, that's according to the man who invented them 50 years ago.