if we found an exoplanet, with earthlike environment that ... would have interesting philosophical implications
I honestly can't think of any implications, if the planet is merely habitable. It wouldn't invalidate any religion I'm aware of.

Now if we found signs of life, even mundane life, we'd never hear the end of it. But it wouldn't affect me in the least because my religion already teaches that there are uncountable worlds similar to Earth (I'm LDS).

1 = 0b1
I think 1 = 1bN, N >= 1. Sorry. No Obi-wan.

de-sertification?

"This device is tiny and fits into the ear and measures movements inside the ear due to changes in facial expression and then uses that as input triggers.

I don't advocate gambling, but a device disguised as a pair of hearing aids that incremented a count with a left eye blink and decremented a count with a right eye blink could be used for card counting.

I used to get pains in my finger joints from typing too much. Switching to a Microsoft Natural keyboard helped, but did not alleviate the pains I was getting. Then I did some research and reasoned that switching from Qwerty to Dvorak layout might help me. Ten days later, I was completely switched. My finger pains completely stopped. I haven't looked back.

I don't care about the subjective speed or typo difference between Qwerty and Dvorak. Dvorak's logical arrangement of keys cuts down finger travel, and that is easily quantifiable.

But JK Rowling would probably sue them.