The fight over whether this is a drug delivery device or not is extremely important. Cigarettes are commodities. They don't require huge clinical trials and expensive Pre-Market Approvals to be sold. If e-cigs lose this battle and get categorized as Class III combination devices by either the CDRH or CDER (the two FDA divisions that govern devices and drugs respectively), EVERY model of e-cig from EVERY company will require a clinical trial before sale.... not to mention the requirement to follow a whole slew of regulations under 21 CFR for manufacturing, labeling, etc. We're talking millions of dollars to make a damned e-cig. Eventually they might be downgraded to Class II, maybe, but a 510(k) submission is more often not so simple either lately.

Moreover, Indium is an element in short supply on the earth, so good luck getting enough to make this viable. Another catalyst perhaps?

....another genuinely cool technology that we'll never see in widespread use.

The Al Caida Civil Liberties Union strikes again.

...Dispel Magic..... Mordenkainen's Disjunction....

After hacking Google and 34 other companies, you would think the Chinese government would lie low for a little while to let things simmer down.... not THIS.
Sheesh... a freshman in a public relations degree program would know that.

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Privacy Invader FAIL

That would probably protect your ears, but what about damage to the rest of your body, if the shockwaves are that powerful?

Wouldn't the people firing the boomsday device be killed, since they are right next to it pulling the trigger?
If you mount it on top of a humvee, same problem, no?

...welcome our Chinese Government Hacker Overlords.

The Chinese need to learn that we will not do business with them until they clean up their human rights issues, implement better protection of IP, and stop being the dishonorable cheaters that they are.

Absolutely. I agree with you. If that is the case, then the methane on Mars is being produced by *existing* life, not extinct life as suggested by the OP.

"Decay" implies the breakdown of biological tissue by... you guessed it, micro-organisms. In places where there is not much bacteria, like the antarctic, things that die do not decay noticeably over hundreds of years or more.
So, I doubt decay from dead things is producing the methane.

I don't get why this is news. This company and this product have been around for like 20 years.

I suppose for energy we could burn unemployed people as fuel.