Hasta La Gadget!

HP swears it has nothing to do with this thing.

(Credit: PhoneArena)

Earlier this month HP told CNET it was planning to get back into the mobile game with a long-term plan to enter the smartphone market.

Then, this week, we saw some images floating around the Web with captions claiming the photos were leaked shots of HP’s new phones. The pictured phone bore an uncanny resemblance to an iPhone running a stock Android OS, with a low-resolution HP logo slapped on the back.

Even more amazing, it only took HP two weeks to turn the notion of getting back into the smartphone market at some point into a new prototype phone.

Or… this particular leak was a hoax. And a pretty crude one at that.

HP was apparently so offended by the notion that this image was being associated with its name that it has put out the word it has nothing to do with this alleged device. In an e-mail to BGR, one of the publications that reported on the leak, HP wrote: This is a fabrication. This is not an HP phone. HP will expand to additional mobility categories and form factors whe… [Read more]

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The 21st century: When humankind realized that urine wasn't waste after all. (Click to enlarge.)

(Credit: UWE Bristol)

Gotta pee? In the future, you might think twice before you flush that valuable power source down an ordinary drain. Scientists at Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the U.K. figured out a new way to make pee pee powerful enough to charge a smartphone.

How does it work? The magic occurs after urine (and other organic matter) passes through a series of microbial fuel cells, which contain tiny microbes that consume and metabolize the liquid into small amounts of energy. The Bristol-based scientists made a system that transfers the collected energy into a capacitor, and in this case, that pee power ended up giving a small charge directly to a Samsung smartphone.

“So far, the microbial fuel power stack that we have developed generates enough power to enable SMS messaging, Web browsing and to make a brief phone call,” said Ioannis Ieropoulos from the University of the West of England, which participated in the research along with the University of Bristol.

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