New York State Senator Carl Kruger is proposing a ban on listening to your iPod or talking on a cellphone while crossing the street, citing a rising number of distracted pedestrian accidents. The fine for getting caught would be $100.

The Way We Live Now: cutting corners. Corners are expensive. You want a 90-degree angle? Pay up. Otherwise you get a ragged, crumbling edge, just like everyone else.

Tonight, Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show with a segment about today's Verizon iPhone announcement. He's excited about having Apple's golden product on a different network! Why? Well, because he may actually be able to make calls now. Watch inside.

Juan Carlos I, the reigning King of Spain, has a cell phone. Who knew! What's more surprising than this, though—as you'll see from the following video—is that the ringtone for His Majesty's cell phone is, well, really creepy.

Cops arrested Shawn Peace—who was identified from this video of him shooting a Queens livery cab driver—this morning in Buffalo. They caught him by tracking his cell phone. Police made the arrest, but technology really caught this guy.

When standing next to a woman being interviewed for her bravery during yesterday's horrific shooting, it's best not to leave your phone set to jaunty. It's definitely not OK to answer the pho—oh, there he goes! Watch inside.

House Republicans have declared victory in the historic battle for Electronic Freedom! They've changed the rules to allow members to use electronic devices in the House chamber — as long as it doesn't "impair decorum," which it probably will.

A woman in Winnetka, Illinois received a terrifying cell phone call from her husband yesterday: though garbled, it sounded to her like he was being taken hostage. The SWAT team was called out. Whoops: it was a butt dial.

Have any private text messages in your phone? Try not to get arrested! A California court just ruled that police can "search" your text messages without a warrant if you're arrested. LOL!

Texas resident Aron Embry was talking on his Droid 2 smartphone when he heard a pop. He claims the phone had exploded in his ear. Embry was rushed to the hospital, where he got 4 stitches.

In August 2008, William Vasilakos was arrested for disturbing the peace. His phone was confiscated. When he got it back, Vasilakos noticed that some sex videos he'd taken had been forwarded to an unknown number. Whose number? His arresting officer's.

Are you that person who can never seem to put their phone down, even during meals? Yes? Well, you're obnoxious. And a majority of Americans agree, according to a new Zagat survey. Taking pictures of your meals is annoying too.

Conspiracy theorists, unite! Courtesy George Clarke, here's some footage—slowed down Zapruder-style—of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film, The Circus that appears to show a woman walking down the street... while talking on a cell phone. Buh? Watch for yourself—and decide—inside.

James Franco hates bloggers, and hair is highly flammable. These were the lessons from James Franco's book party, where he angrily told me to "go away." Then he grabbed and threw a reporter's phone. Then someone's hair lit on fire.

You know those stories about soldiers who carry bullet-stopping Bibles in their breast pockets? A guy in Harlem got shot today, but the cellphone in his pocket stopped the bullet. Maybe God found out that we call phones "Jesus" now?

Looks like NYC subway stations are getting cell phone service earlier than expected: Six stations—Along 14th St., and at 23rd St. and 8th Ave.—should be wired by the end of 2011. It will be both convenient and annoying.

Want to be the least cool person around? Get a new Wal-Mart cell phone plan.

Scientists have definitively proved that overhearing a cellphone conversation is more distracting than overhearing a normal conversation. It's because you only hear a "half-a-logue," which is less predictable and therefore requires more mental power to parse and ignore.

The average teenager sends nearly 3,000 texts a month. Experts say that kids these days are literally addicted to texting. Wow. Talk about a shitty addiction. Where's the glamor? We have the formula for breaking this useless, unsexy addiction.

A 23-year-old in India is believed to have been killed by an exploding phone after being found "near his farm along with remains of mobile phone and battery." Sounds like he was using... a bomb pilot. [Puts on sunglasses] YEEAAAOWWW!