Amazingly light and efficient fuel cells
Samsung’s been toying around with fuel cell batteries for about three years, but now it means business. Rolling out first to the military, this ethanol-powered fuel cell is set to power military paraphernalia next year. But it’s not going to run laptops for a month as originally promised. (Pics)

 
 5 point security on the new Troika gadget card
The Social Security card is one of those objects that’s about as low-tech as they come. It’s a card with a number on it. That’s it. But what if we wanted to give it an update for the 21st century? FrogDesign came up with an idea for [...]

 Yes, it was indeed hit with an “ugly stick” but sometimes ugly is cool
We found this compact pickup truck, Barkan Design’s Counter Balance buried way in the back of the New York International Auto Show. There was nobody there to talk about it, and it was barely on the show floor, but it was clear [...]

eBay paves the way.

Out of work, with extra time on your hands and a very small amount of money to invest in a new venture? How about a Molecular Biology Lab to while away the unemployment time and perhaps create something new?
Dave Ng sez, “Whilst doing a bit of homework for a chapter I’m writing, [...]

Kyoto Box 
A $6 cardboard box that uses solar power to cook food, sterilize water and could help 3 billion poor people cut greenhouse gases, has won a $75,000 prize for ideas to fight global warming.

YouTube EDU
College too expensive? Try YouTube. It might seem counterintuitive to look for higher education alongside Avril Lavigne music videos, but the video-sharing site has become a major reservoir of college content.

 
Apple makes more news when it hiccups about its next-gen iPhone, supposedly coming in late June or early July, than was generated by the entire CTIA cellphone show last week in Las Vegas.

 The flexible solar module is as small as the page of a book.
In the race to renewable energy, organic solar cells are now really starting to take off. They can be manufactured easily and cheaply, they have low environmental impact, and since they are compatible with flexible substrates, they could be used in many applications [...]

Obesity is an epedimic in the U.S. and increasing in the developing world.
Three new studies show that most adults have unexpectedly large and active deposits of a calorie-burning type of fat that biologists once thought disappeared after infancy.