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The 33 Chilean miners trapped nearly a kilometre underground have made a video of themselves and the place they may be staying for months using a camera handed down to them through a bore hole. They even sing a little bit!
As long as you live in a submarine, a refrigerator or a steel box, this Striker magnetic LED mine will be extremely useful for odd-angle illumination. If not, not as much. $US9 dudes!
Finding humans to clear minefields is hard. So in Mozambique, they’ve trained rats to sniff out unexploded ordinance, single out its location by pawing at the ground (careful!), and de-mine the field.
China isn’t the only nation dismantling used electronics to get at the gold, copper and silver inside. This trend, called “urban mining”, is even more profitable in the current market where precious metals are trading close to their all-time high. For example, a ton of ore from a gold mine gives about 5 grams of gold, but a ton of mobile phones gives 150 grams of gold. Why would Japan be into this trend? Because their country has few natural resources outside of perverted old dudes, but if they stack up all the mobile phones owned by their citizens, they could probably make a pile as big as Mt. Fuji. [Yahoo News]
This is what you get down on the beach on a Saturday afternoon—if you’re in the West of England. Experts detonated a German mine from the Second World War after they discovered it in Bridgwater Bay. The 300 x 75cm mine was dropped during the war by a German bomber, and was discovered sitting in mud by a fisherman. [Daily Mail]
