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Submission + - Making battery replacement a thing of the past (umich.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12, 2010 @05:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: University of Michigan researchers have crammed an ARM Cortex microcontroller, a thin-film battery, and a solar cell into a package that is only 9 cubic millimeters in volume. The system is able to run perpetually by periodically recharging the on-board battery with a solar cell (neglecting physical wear-out of the system).

Submission + - Operate your iPhone with Frozen Hot Dogs !?! (ddgameworld.com)

Submitted by Weemz on Friday February 12, 2010 @05:03PM

Weemz writes: This is definitely the oddest thing I have read all day."

"Too cold to take your gloves off? No problem, try a frozen, individually wrapped Hot Dog.

Seoul, Korea; CJ Corporation's "Max Rod" sales are soaring as Koreans have discovered that they are quite effective for operating iPhones in cold weather. Max Rods are individually wrapped, frozen sausages that have replaced the need for an iPhone stylus or iPhone gloves. Once back indoors, this handy stylus becomes a not so light snack!
Funnier than watching a subway car of people tapping their iPhones with frozen meat-sticks is reading the Google Translation of the original news article here.

Comment This is just bullshit.... (Score 1) 177

by mjander on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @09:07PM (#21191333) Attached to: Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying

Hi there, This topic was announced a lot of time ago, and at least in Germany, nobody cares about. This topic is over. There was just one crazy politician (Schäuble), that thought doing this USA kind of thing would be great, but I think that he just killed his politician career. An even if the BND (like the CIA in the USA, but they arent evil :) ) is already watching me, I really don't care. Because no Police men has nocked on my door so far :) As somebody of the CCC (Chaos Computer Club) told to the Spiegel some time ago, this is not even Pratical. If they really want to tap a PC of someone effectively, they will fail at least at the cost of such a operation. It is just nonsense. Best Regards, mjander

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