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Odd Consumer News

But will it lunge at an intruder's privates? > Stores across Japan started taking orders Thursday for the Roborior - a watermelon-sized eyeball on wheels that glows purple, blue and orange - continuing the country's love affair with gadgets. > Roborior can function as interior decor, but

The Techno v. The Snob . . .

. . . Who will win? A scientist has developed a technology for manipulating grapes and the resulting wine. We can't say we fully understand it. This article either does a bad job of explaining it or we're ignorant about wine. Either way, it sounds kind of interesting. Link

Odd Consumer News

Perhaps it's not odd, but we're intrigued by case-mods. A case-mod is "any modification performed on a stock computer case. Mods can be functional or purely decorative, but they're all created in the name of creating a custom computer." Link

Great News!

Bring on the next savage round of meth-fueled bath-house parties! > Scientists in Australia's tropical north are collecting blood from crocodiles in the hope of developing a powerful antibiotic for humans, after tests showed that the reptile's immune system kills the HIV virus. >

Wanted: Beer Drinkers

> Scientists in Singapore have invented a battery powered by urine. > How It Works > The battery sandwiches copper, paper laced with copper chloride, and magnesium between two plastic layers. The "sandwich" is later laminated. > "When a droplet of human urine is added into the

Nerd War!

"It was horrible, officer. They were stabbing each other with pens and bludgeoning each other their thick eyeglasses!" Link [http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/computer.frenzy.ap/index.html]. Excerpt: > A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with

Skin for Robots . . .

. . . Wait until the porn perverts get ahold of this stuff. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4154366.stm]. Currently, the "skin" is only a receiver: of heat and pressure. But eventually we assume it could progress to feeling like skin, which would be great

Jamn that Law

> Some churches in Mexico have gone beyond lectures and taken the James Bond-as-disciplinarian route to combat sacrilegious cell phone use. The churches have installed short-range cell phone signal jammers to thwart members of their flock who lack cell phone self-control during mass. > The jammers

The Bizarro St. Josephs?

> Research suggests that, as cases of teenage pregnancies, sexual infidelity and multiple partners increase, 1 in 25 fathers could unknowingly be raising another man's child. > With improvements in genetic testing, thousands of fathers every year are discovering that “their” child is someone else's. A

Odd Consumer News

Another good one from the Makezine blog: > Solar-powered Wi-Fi networks. Lumin's first-generation product is the LightWave AP-1000 solar-powered access point, which comes in two models, single and dual. The Pearl Street deployment utilizes four dual units, each of which is located out