{"id":35102,"date":"2021-06-05T23:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35102"},"modified":"2021-06-05T23:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T23:33:18","slug":"freddie-figgers-the-millionaire-tech-inventor-who-was-thrown-away-as-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35102","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was &#8216;thrown away&#8217; as a baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He started out providing services in rural areas of north Florida and southern Georgia, not far from Quincy, and the company has steadily grown. In 2014, Freddie launched a smartphone, the Figgers F1, with a device that detects motion and switches to &#8220;safe mode&#8221; above 10mph, preventing people from texting while driving. The Figgers F3, which went on sale in 2019, contains a chip designed to enable wireless charging whenever the phone is within five metres of a &#8220;super base charger&#8221; &#8211; a device that has been awaiting approval by the FCC. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-57081087\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He started out providing services in rural areas of north Florida and southern Georgia, not far from Quincy, and the company has steadily grown. In 2014, Freddie launched a smartphone, the Figgers F1, with a device that detects motion and switches to &#8220;safe mode&#8221; above 10mph, preventing people from texting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/118812437_03.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}