On the list of things that might be eavesdropping on your day-to-day conversations, the tiny motor that makes your phone buzz isn't necessarily the first one that comes to mind. But that is exactly ...

The vibration motor in your smartphone could be used almost like a microphone, and it just takes a little rewiring. That revelation, published earlier this year in a study by two University of ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It's Friday, so we're answering some of the Good Questions you've e-mailed us this summer. Chris from Hopkins wants to know: what makes cell phones vibrate? Employees from Sprint ...

Cover up your webcam, disable microphone access and put on your tinfoil hat — but it won’t make any difference, because the Illuminati can get at you through your phone’s vibration motor now. Well, ...

I'm good for this at least a couple of times a week: My cell phone is silenced and in the front pocket of my jeans, as it almost always is, and I feel the very specific sensation that accompanies ...

A few weeks back I told you about Phantom Cell Phone Vibration Syndrome, the stupefying first-world problem that us social media addicts suffer from, in which our thighs vibrate where phones usually ...