why not plain old 12VDC? ... we already have a connector for this

Because a cigarette-lighter connector is noisy and unreliable! Sheesh, I hate them.

According to Wikipedia, the resonances occur at extremely low frequencies (ELF) around 7.83 (fundamental), 14.3, 20.8, 27.3 and 33.8 Hz. That's Hertz, not megaHertz. Now, how can we tune them in? I, for one, do not own a radio that can receive those frequencies.

Researchers at Stanford University have invented ONE HALF OF A BATTERY....

How the heck do you pronounce "Duqu"?

I like this idea a lot. And it seems like an excellent project for an Open Source Hardware community to develop a flexible platform for sliders, knobs, and switches to interface with a PC or Mac. Then anyone who wanted sliders, knobs, and/or switches wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel.

"in communities with low unemployment"

What the heck does low unemployment have to do with super high speed access?

FTFA: "The team managed this through time reversal...."

The second place winner is called "Grouping by Contrast"

Mirror here: http://www.moillusions.com/2011/05/grouping-by-contrast.html

The first place winner is called "Silencing Awareness of Change by Background Motion" and is the blinking-dots-in-a-circle illusion.

Several versions here: http://visionlab.harvard.edu/silencing/

Third Place Winner is called the "Loch Ness Aftereffect"

Available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djd218oWOGQ

Higher quality version at http://lpp.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/wexlerillusion/