First up, everyone’s favorite Mythbuster/model maker hard at work:

(Adam Savage’s TED talk from EG ’08 conference)

Zomg! “They’ve” finally invented an actual tricorder! As someone who’s going into nursing, I really hope I get to play with one of those. Damnit Jim, I’m a nurse not a carpenter!

Next up…CHUCK fans should be excited to know that the US military (*cough*DARPA*cough*) is developing a wrist computer much like the one Orion was sporting at the end of Season 2.

Need a laugh? Then how ’bout this David vs. Goliath story…Porsche recently attempted a hostile takeover of Volkswagen. Unfortunately, Porsche went into so much debt in their attempted coup that VW was able to not only fend off the takeover; but now VW owns a controlling interest of Porsche. HA!

Finally…scientists have found hard evidence of a ginormous lake on Mars which,”…existed more than 3 billion years ago. It covered as much as 80 square miles and was up to 1,500 feet deep — roughly the equivalent of Lake Champlain bordering the United States and Canada, said Gaetano Di Achille, who led the study out of the University of Colorado at Boulder.”