Technology

> 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

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

> Prolonged use of mobile phones can lead to permanent eye damage including cataracts, scientists believe. > Medical researchers have found that microwave radiation of the type emitted by mobile phones causes eye tissue to "bubble" - a precursor to the formation of cataracts - and can also interfere with

To a man with a hammer, the whole world is a nail. To a man with a camera phone, everything is a photo-op: > A man filmed himself jumping to his death on his mobile video phone and beamed the live images to his horrified girlfriend, an inquest heard.

. . . but only a mite: > Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. Link [http://mosnews.com/

Man, we don't even own a camera phone yet, much less a tripod for it. When is the first camera-phone art festival? > Cellpod is a quick-attach, quick release tripod for your cell phone camera. Cellpod is a product that is small enough to carry with