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Submission + - Baking soda could help save planet (kyoht.com)

Submitted by Gre7g on Friday November 30, 2007 @06:59PM

Gre7g writes: Today, a company called Skyonic announced a novel new system, Skymine, which uses the carbon dioxide emitted from smokestacks to make baking soda. According to Skyonic CEO Joe David Jones, the system will be powered by waste heat from factories, and will produce food-grade baking soda.

Submission + - Man killed after phone explosion (kyoht.com)

Submitted by Gre7g on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @12:25PM

Gre7g writes: An exploding mobile phone battery apparently killed a South Korean man in the first such known case in this gadget-obsessed country, police say.

Submission + - Researchers Create Robotic Pied Piper Roaches 2

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Gre7g

on Thursday November 15, 2007 @07:11PM

Gre7g writes: "To do that, they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd. "One way to get them," Halloy says, "would be to create mutants somehow, with abnormal behavior. But we don't have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within."

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