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LOTD for July 23

Any bike can be converted into an electric bike in just *1 minute*, for a cost of $1200 - $1500:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/convert-any-bike-into-electric-bike-in.html


Android app created by Berkeley researchers enables users to donate their smartphone's idle computing power to crunch numbers for research projects that could lead to breakthroughs ranging from medical therapies to the discovery of new stars:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/07/new-app-puts-idle-smartphones-work-science


Study found that skipping breakfast increased the risk of a heart attack by 27%!
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/07/skipping-breakfast-may-increase-heart-attack-risk


"Smart Diaper" allows parents to scan their baby's butt with their smartphone to check for UTIs, dehydration, kidney problems, etc.:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/blogs/2013/07/smart-diapers-perform-high-tech-urinalysis?et_cid=3383846&et_rid=60838639&type=headline


The DOD says that they can give up the 25MHz of spectrum they have in the 1.7GHz band, something that T-Mobile and other wireless carriers have been very interested in:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/pentagon-signals-it-would-be-willing-move-1755-1780-mhz-band/2013-07-23


T-Mobile slammed AT&T's new plans as "calculating, sneaky, and underhanded" since they don't discount the monthly rate but make people pay for their phones without subsidy.  Verizon slammed AT&T"s claim of haivng the best network reliability, saying that others merely "tried to claim reliability":
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-verizon-take-aim-att-advertising-wars-heat/2013-07-23


Article about how Samsung's developers conference is cutting out Google from the developer process:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/07/samsung-to-cut-out-google-middleman-with-own-developers-conference/


Man brought his old refrigerator to a recycling park in New York...without realizing that his wife had stashed their life savings inside of the refrigerator!  She went to the huge recycling area and told workers about the money and was told that there was no way for them to search through the piles of refrigerators.  However, a nice worker did go through everything and found their money:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/07/20/scrap-yard-workers-in-queens-search-for-couple-who-accidently-trashed-life-savings/
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