{"id":1949,"date":"2017-10-04T20:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2019-04-10T15:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:04:02","slug":"lgs-new-k7i-phone-features-mosquito-repelling-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/lgs-new-k7i-phone-features-mosquito-repelling-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"LG&#8217;s New K7i Phone Features Mosquito-Repelling Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LG&#8217;s latest phone features a 5-in. HD display, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and an unspecified quad-core processor. Pretty standard, right? However, the new India-exclusive K7i smartphone has one characteristic that has people buzzing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mosquito-repelling ultrasonic sound wave technology built into the phone itself.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the technology, which LG refers to as Mosquito Away, is already included in many of the company&#8217;s other electronics, ranging from washing machines to televisions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, the mosquito-repelling tech emits ultrasonic waves from a mesh grid on the back of the phone, which in turn repel the pests and are &#8220;absolutely safe and harmless for humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, there is an ongoing debate regarding whether or not the tech actually works or is simply a marketing ploy by LG.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, welcome mosquito-repelling features to the tech space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG&#8217;s latest phone features a 5-in. HD display, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and an unspecified quad-core processor. Pretty standard, right? However, the new India-exclusive K7i smartphone has one characteristic that has people buzzing&#8230; Mosquito-repelling ultrasonic sound wave technology built into the phone itself. It is worth noting that the technology, which LG refers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[822,821],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}