Remember learning about America’s "amber waves of grain?" Well, it turns out that the United States’ bread basket—a.k.a., the Corn Belt—is even more productive than previously thought. In fact, during its growing season, it’s the most productive land on Earth, according to new NASA data.
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If humans are going to keep living in the style to which we’re accustomed, we need to find alternatives for fossil fuels. Partly that’s because we need to reduce pollution — and partly because those fossil fuels are going to run out. But alternative forms of energy may look a lot weirder than you think.
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Arsenic-contaminated water is a massive problem in the developing world. But, even when you filter it out, the toxic sludge that the process produces often gets dumped right back into the water supply. It’s tough to dream up a use for arsenic soup, but one research team finally has: They’re making bricks out of it.
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It has been a while since Google announced that its selling Motorola Mobility to Beijing-based Lenovo. When Google picked it up back in 2011 it didn’t put it through massive rebranding, it simply came to be known as “a Google company.” Once the deal closes and the company officially belongs to Lenovo, the world’s largest PC vendor will be able to rebrand it the way it wants to. Though Lenovo may have a lot to gain if it retains Motorola. The name itself has global recognition and could immensely help Lenovo in its aim of becoming a major player in the smartphone market.
Motorola By Lenovo Brand Might Be Under Consideration original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Citizens of notoriously smoggy Zhengzhou could breathe a little easier – for a few minutes, at least – thanks to a local travel company’s promotional gimmick. Staffers brought 20 big blue bags of fresh air collected 120 miles (300 km) away at Laojun Mountain to the east-central Chinese city and distributed it to grateful mask-wearing residents.
It doesn’t matter if you are a celebrity who is being stalked by the paparazzi, or you continuously feel like Big Brother is watching, or maybe you just hate having your picture taken. We found the perfect thing for you.
The Justice Cap looks like a normal baseball cap. The major difference is there is a built in set of high powered LED lights along the rim of the visor. These lights make it difficult for most cameras to capture your face in a video or on a digital camera. Used it at night and this hat works perfectly to black out your face. During the daylight hours, however, it will only be able to hide part of your face.
Watch their YouTube video to get an idea of the capabilities of this simple yet perfect way to hide your identity.
It’s been a long time coming, but Motorola’s Moto Maker phone-building tool has finally arrived for Republic Wireless customers. The low-cost carrier has sold the Moto X for several months already, but it’s just now offering Motorola’s unique…
Not too many of us are willing to admit it, but it most likely has happened to you. You are walking along and you get a text that you need to reply to. Do you stop, step out of everyone’s way and then reply? Most likely you continue walking, your eyes focused on the phone in your hands and not on the inevitable light pole just ahead. We all know what happens next, we have all seen the youtube videos and think that it could never happen to you.
Well, walking into harms way while texting might be more common than many people think and has actually spawned some laws in some cities. To this, Apple has just filed for a patent to start working on the technology for “transparent texting“. This technology will enable you to text and see through your phone as to what is coming ahead by basically utilizing the rear facing video camera and displaying it behind your texting interface. The rumor is that this feature will be available for iOS 8, but Apple has not officially made any announcement as of yet.
The FCC just voted to open up another 100 megahertz of wireless spectrum, which will increase the number of frequencies available to unlicensed wireless networks (read: what you have at your house) by 15 percent. In other words, your Wi-Fi is about to get a lot faster.
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Often Xiaomi is referred to as the Apple of China. It has only been around for four years yet it has cemented itself as a major player in China’s burgeoning smartphone market. Xiaomi’s strategy is to flood the market with highly competitively priced smartphones, and it seems to be working. The company has announced that in the first three months of 2014 it has sold 11 million smartphones. That’s astonishing, given that it only sold 18.7 million units in all of 2013.
Xiaomi Has Sold 11 Million Smartphones So Far This Year original content from Ubergizmo. 
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