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# Mobile Mecca
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/mobile-mecca/
- Published: 2004-05-07T16:01:36.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-16T21:01:04.000Z
- Description: A Korean electronics company called LGE has launched a “a mobile phone with an embedded compass to allow Muslim users to…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

A Korean electronics company called [LGE](http://www.lgegulf.com/?ref=protein.xyz) has launched a “a mobile phone with an embedded compass to allow Muslim users to locate the direction of Mecca.”

  
One of the company’s senior designers says the idea was to create a phone “whose concept is reflected in the situation or culture of its actual place.” That’s a very big challenge indeed, particularly given the Western cultural assumptions that tend to dominate technology product development and design. It’s a challenge that had Intel sending a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Genevieve Bell, to “100 households in 19 cities in seven countries in Asia and the Pacific” over the last two years.

[Link](http://www.lgegulf.com/?ref=protein.xyz)

Via Cool News.