Hasta La Gadget!

Back in November, we told you about Wafaa Bilal, a New York University professor visiting from Iraq who announced plans to have a small camera implanted in his head, beaming images to a museum in Qatar.

The “3rd I” projector was “a comment on the inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory, and experience.” It also ended up being a comment on the dangers of implanting foreign objects into the back of one’s head.

Bilal, who had the camera installed in his head earlier this month, has since had it removed, due to the pain of his body rejecting the device. Despite the unexpected surgery, Bilal insists that he will press on. “I’m determined to continue with it,” Bilal said in an interview with an academic journal.

Apple’s infamous App Store vetting process is set to come under fire yet again, with the pending release of Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration, an iPhone/iPad game that revolves around the smuggling of immigrants across the US-Mexican border.

Alex Schwartz, the Owlchemy Labs developer behind the title claims to have been inspired by his own friends who had trouble making it over the border. “As we lived through a painful 12 months of our friend struggling through the absurd legal minefield that surrounds U.S. immigration, we felt that we should create a game that touches on the issue,” says Schwartz.

Not surprisingly, the game is being met with all manner of criticism, claiming that the title trivializes the hot button topic. The game is due out in March, pending approval. Trailer after the jump.

The South American giant short-faced bear was, well, giant. How giant, you ask? Well, let’s just say that it made the North American giant short-faced bear look like the North American moderately-sized short-faced bear, if you catch my drift. The South America giant short-faced bear is the largest bear ever discovered, at 3,500 pounds and at least 11 feet.

The North American giant short-faced bear is the previous record holder, having weighed up to 2,500 pounds. The largest living bear on record, meanwhile, only weighed 2,200 pounds–let’s just say that, in this scenario, its porridge would have been just right.

The South American variety roamed around its eponymous continent roughly 500,000 to two million years ago, and was likely the largest carnivore on land. Palentologist Blaine Schubert told National Geographic, “It just blew my mind how big it was.”