Prisoners Smuggle In Cell Phones With ... Pigeons!

Posted by Alex in Animal, Crime & Law on April 5, 2009 at 12:23 am

Prison inmates are an innovative bunch (case in point: pruno), so it should be of no big surprise that they’ve found ways to smuggle contrabands into prison. But this method is surely unique: inmates at a prison farm in Brazil have been using pigeons to smuggle in cell phones!

Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs last week. "The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cell phone inside the bag," police investigator Celso Soramiglio said Tuesday.

One day later, another pigeon was spotted dragging a similar bag inside the prison’s exercise yard. Inside the bag was the cell phone’s charger, Soramiglio said.

Link – via Discoblog

 
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Cell Phone Survives a Week in Fish Belly

Posted by Queuebot in Odd News on March 3, 2009 at 1:33 am

Businessman Andrew Cheatle lost his cell phone during a visit to the local beach.  Believing it was gone forever after his cell phone apparently swept out to sea, he received a big surprise a week later. 

Andrew, 45, said: “I was messing about with my dog and my phone must have fallen out and been swept out in the swell.

“I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days.”

He was shopping for a new phone with girlfriend Rita Smith, 33, when her mobile went off.

She told him: “Your old mobile number is calling my phone.”

Andrew continued: “She said some guy was going on about my phone and a cod so she handed it over to me and he told me where he had found it.

“I thought he was winding me up but he assured me he had caught a cod that morning and was gutting it for his fish stall and that my Nokia was inside it — a bit worse for wear.

“I didn’t believe him but went to meet him and found it was my phone — a bit smelly and battered — but incredibly it still worked after I let it dry out.”

Link – via tech

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VideoSift Clips of the Week

Posted by Alex in VideoSift on February 12, 2009 at 5:59 pm

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Juggling with Bowling Ball
Remember the Chinlone video we posted on Neatorama a while ago? Well, that ain' nothing compared to this rhythmic gymnast juggling with a bowling ball!

I kid: that's not a bowling ball, but it sure does look like one! Link

Dog Hates the Happy Birthday Song!
Dave the Wonder Dog is a half black lab, half border colli and all crazy. It has a strange musical trigger: if you sing the Happy Birthday Song, be prepared to deal with a dog gone berserk ...

Link

Physics Fun: Jell-O + Electricity = FIRE!
Can you make Jell-O electrically conductive? Sure you can, if you make it out of alcohol. Here's what you get when you tase a Jell-O:

Link (Includes the phrase "electrically active Jell-O mound" that is PURE WIN)

Cell Phone Reunion
When Bluetooth, cell phones, car phone and the Blackberry teams up, the iPhone gets what he deserves ...

From the geniuses over at CollegeHumor: Link (NSFW language - the ending makes it all worth the wait)

The Crazy PS3 Kid Banned From Playing PS3
That PS3 is like crack for little kids - here's a Norwegian kid giving an Oscar-worthy performance when he got banned from playing his Playstation.

His range of emotion is amazing! Christian Bale, watch out! Link

For more the web's most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.

 
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Cell Phone Hack Analyzes Blood

Posted by Miss Cellania in Gadget, Medicine on December 21, 2008 at 6:53 am

A modified cell phone could allow doctors to analyze blood samples for HIV, malaria, and other diseases in remote villages where costly lab equipment and the power to run them are unavailable! The device is called a LUCAS imager (Lensfree Ultrawide-field Cell-monitoring Array platform based on Shadow imaging).

UCLA researcher Dr. Aydogan Ozcan images thousands of blood cells instantly by placing them on an off-the-shelf camera sensor and lighting them with a filtered-light source (coherent light, for you science buffs). The filtered light exposes distinctive qualities of the cells, which are then interpreted by Ozcan’s custom software. By analyzing the cell types present in a much larger sample, a more accurate diagnosis can be made in a matter of minutes. No more sending blood away to a lab and waiting days or weeks for the results.

Ozcan is seeking a manufacture so these devices can be mass-produced. Link -Thanks, Dave Bullock!

 
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