Ottawa taxi drivers see the light - A recent knifepoint robbery of an Ottawa taxi driver has illustrated the benefit of in-car security cameras. The camera installed in the car of the driver that was yielded a video and photos of the cabbie's assailant.
There might be life, or something like it, on Titan - A graduate student at the University of Arizona postulates that ice volcanoes (volcanoes that spew liquid water instead of lava) on Titan might remain unfrozen long enough to hydrolyze into complex hydrocarbons called tholins, much the same way life is believed to have been formed on Earth.
Researchers create eSkin - Japanese researchers have developed a flexible, stretchable conductive "skin" that, when combined with sensors, could allow robots (or other devices, like steering wheels) to sense heat and pressure.
Hacking pacemakers - A recent study discovered that remotely-programmable Pacemakers can be easily hacked because they use an unencrypted communication protocol.
Monitoring the obesity of the population - A British engineer has designed what her refers to as a Static Obesity Logging Device that is able to measure the BMI of people that pass within it's field of view. The data can then be remotely accessed to determine the BMI statistics of people who recently walked near the device.
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