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Monsanto: Destroying Our Food Supplies And Our Health
The latest of a slew of problems Monsanto has caused is this: Monsanto planted genetically modified sugar beets without filling out all the necessary paperwork about these beets’ environmental impact. The USDA is working on a statement, but that statement won’t be ready until 2012. Monsanto is supposed to...
Treyarch Thinks “Negative Gamers” Are Holding Back the Industry
Uhhhh…seriously? Treyarch seems to have their panties in a bunch because they’ve been getting flamed a lot over Call of Duty: Black Ops. What they said was that, as the gaming community has grown, it has developed a more negative energy. There are a greater number of people who...
Open-Source Bluetooth Network Hacking Device
Michael Ossman has designed Ubertooth One, which is an inexpensive and open-source Bluetooth network sniffer. While in “monitoring mode”, it allows you to gather data meant for other Bluetooth devices. This little device is a USB plug with a ARM Cortex-M3 processor-based board and an antenna, and it’s compatible...
Etch-A-Sketch Computer
Somebody decided to turn his computer into a giant etch-a-sketch…I imagine I’d tire of the controls fairly quickly, but it is impressive how these guys made the etch-a-sketch nobs.
Molybdenite Could Be the Future of Electronics
Molybdenite is a mineral most of you may not have heard of (I admit I had never heard of it before), and many researchers think it has the potential to lead us into the next generation of electronics. You see, this mineral can be sliced much, much thinner than...
Android Now the World’s Biggest Smartphone OS
Android has surpassed Nokia’s Symbian platform to become the most widely used smartphone OS in the world. Android’s market share is now at 33%, compared to 31% for Symbian and 16% for Apple. Android’s distribution has increased sevenfold this year to 33 million phones. Android is especially popular in...
Breakthrough in Using Hydrogen as Fuel
A UK-based company, Cella Energy (http://www.cellaenergy.com/), has promised that it can produce hydrogen fuel for cheap. So cheap that we’d only be paying $1.50 per gallon at the pump, and this price would be stable because our fuel costs would not be contingent upon or affected by our relations...
Water-Powered Jet Packs Now on the Market
Okay, they’re still a little pricey, so you probably won’t be seeing them around any time soon. They’re pretty cool to watch, though. Also, it’s pretty cool how they work: they are used in bodies of water (oceans, lakes, etc) and take the water from that body of water...
