Mobiles used to surveil shoppers..

Times Online: "Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones.

The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they walked around.

The device cannot access personal details about a person’s identity or contacts, but privacy campaigners expressed concern about potential intrusion should the data fall into the wrong hands."


Seems like this would be easy enough to correlate with time-coded surveillance video on premises... Speaking of which, aren't they already doing this with the cameras?

Scientists claim discovery of 'wireless power' 100 years too late

Daily Mail: "Scientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead. In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone or laptop computer without wires or cables. In the first successful trial of its kind, the team was able to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb 7ft away."

Um. No. Had the journalist done any research whatsoever, he would have found what many already know - Nicola Tesla had discovered and used this principal over a century ago.

Even holding a fluorescent tube near a Tesla Coil will cause it to light up. Research, people.