I read a statistic the other day that says your chances of being hit by lightning are approximately 1 in 3 million.  So I guess I am not too worried.

But according to this story if you are using a cell phone during a lightning storm the chances of getting struck are substantially increased.

How about recording your favourite smells! The Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan has engineers working on exactly that.  They are building an odour recorder capable of recording, for playback the odour of anything.  For example point it at a freshly baked pie and it will analyse its odour and reproduce it for you using a host of non-toxic chemicals.

The whole idea sounds very cool and I can imagine sitting back with my eyes closed and reliving moments with my nose but something about the chemical reproduction does make me worried.  I wonder if there will be any long-term health risks.

I am not sure how happy I am with this experiment because it makes me think of what is happening to my brain during long cell phone calls.

Way across the world in Russia a journalist used a pair of cell phones to cook a hard-boiled egg!  Yikes, check out the full story here.

Record label executives have figured on a new way to try and make money.  The ability to download songs to your mobile phone that are playing on the radio!

UBC Media Group is the company that will be testing this over the next few months with a full launch expected next year.

How many times have you said “I love that song (on the radio) and wish I had it”.  Then by the time you remember to look for it you already forgot which one it was.  Check out the full story here.

Sweet invention from a Hungarian company, a car called the Kenguru (as in “kangaroo”) that a wheelchair-bound person can just slide right into. No dealing with the inconvenience of using a regular car. It is quites small and only seats one but looks to be a nice treat for increasing the mobility of the handicapped.

There is quite the push from India to capture US dollars via offering cut-rate prices from everything Internet, be it design, customer support or programming India has figured out that they can undercut the rest of the world and still make lots of money.

Now Motorola has announced it will be investing 100 million dollars to set up a cell phone and telecom equipment plant.  Industry anyalists say this is a direct response to Nokia’s stranglehold on the Indian market.

Word is they will invest an initial 30 million in their project in Tamil Nadu with final cost projections of 100-120 million dollars.