Uphone, from the phone to the web.

Video hype at all costs (video-blog, real-time videoconferencing, web-cam and videophones), there are few who are devoting sufficient attention to audio, with weight characteristics of the transmitted fully manageable and immediate usability. The project Uphone , Kate Rich developed by the Bureau of Inverse Technology is an important tool, still under experimentation that allows you to record phone calls directly as audio streams, then accessible from the network. Taking a call (from any phone private, public or mobile) to the two numbers available so far in London and New York, you can record up to five minutes of message, immediately transformed into a RealAudio file on the server. Uphone has already been used in the design of BiT Bit Antiterror Line , where the slogan of 'every phone a microphone', has made ​​available a line to report or share information and records of operations sudden 'anti-terror' in the U.S., thus creating a database of possible abuses documented. The aim is therefore to provide an open tool very similar to a microphone for sound documentation of actions open to the public with a tool still unmatched simplicity and mobility: the telephone.