7:06 PM
3 college students have been arrested because they allegedly helped one of the Boston bombers destroy evidence and one of them lied to police when asked about it:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bull20130501-three-friends-of-dzhokhar-arrested-charged-with-destroying-evidence
A British businessman was convicted of selling $20 golf ball finders for $40,000 each by calling them bomb detectors--millions of US dollars were used to buy those fake devices in Iraq and Afghanistan. The police in Kenya purchased 26 of the fake detectors (more than $1 mil is a lot of money for Kenya!) and now they claim that they make Kenya safer...or their police chief just can't admit he made a mistake:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130430-kenya-police-fake-bomb-detectors-work-making-kenyans-safer
UC-SD researchers found that the structure of the bony, armored plates in a seahorse's tail could be used to make flexible robotic arms with mucles made out of polymer:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/05/seahorses-armor-gives-engineers-insight-robotics-designs
Qualcomm is offering $10 mil to anyone who can create a Star Trek-like tricorder:
http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/
Leap Wireless reported improved iPhone sales but said that they won't buy anymore Apple products after their initial $900 mil, 3-year deal with Apple that started last June:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/leap-sees-improved-iphone-sales-will-not-purchase-more/2013-04-30
Raspberry Pi passed the 1 million unit shipped milestone in their first year and they expect to sell their second million in the 6 month period following that. They are now being looked at by companies, including a possibility that they could be used in cars:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50154&id=E9381817-0593-417A-8639-C4C53E2A2A10
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bull20130501-three-friends-of-dzhokhar-arrested-charged-with-destroying-evidence
A British businessman was convicted of selling $20 golf ball finders for $40,000 each by calling them bomb detectors--millions of US dollars were used to buy those fake devices in Iraq and Afghanistan. The police in Kenya purchased 26 of the fake detectors (more than $1 mil is a lot of money for Kenya!) and now they claim that they make Kenya safer...or their police chief just can't admit he made a mistake:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130430-kenya-police-fake-bomb-detectors-work-making-kenyans-safer
UC-SD researchers found that the structure of the bony, armored plates in a seahorse's tail could be used to make flexible robotic arms with mucles made out of polymer:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/05/seahorses-armor-gives-engineers-insight-robotics-designs
Qualcomm is offering $10 mil to anyone who can create a Star Trek-like tricorder:
http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/
Leap Wireless reported improved iPhone sales but said that they won't buy anymore Apple products after their initial $900 mil, 3-year deal with Apple that started last June:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/leap-sees-improved-iphone-sales-will-not-purchase-more/2013-04-30
Raspberry Pi passed the 1 million unit shipped milestone in their first year and they expect to sell their second million in the 6 month period following that. They are now being looked at by companies, including a possibility that they could be used in cars:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50154&id=E9381817-0593-417A-8639-C4C53E2A2A10