The February edition of the Chip India magazine (the dead trees version that is) reports that the United States Department of Defense now has a tool that let's them remotely detect whether somebody is lying! The Remote Personnel Assistance (RPA) will apparently be used as a "remote or concealed lie detector during prisoner interrogation". It works by reading information from beams reflected off a suspect's body. Where's the planet heading I ask, if a man cannot lie in peace!

In other news (again from the same magazine), scientists at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology have found found that algae can help clean the planet up by laundering it off all the CO₂ spewed out by factories and vehicles. That's good news because now you can present a straight face while telling your spouse/parent that they are acting in an extremely un-eco-friendly manner by asking you to clean your room up and that such interference while you are busy saving Mother Earth is not appreciated!