How to build a solar refrigerator: the brighter the sun, the better it works.

A Hot Idea for Cooling

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Forget charging batteries, or even whipping out a solar panel. Toshiba says its first fuel cell powered gadgets will be launched in just a few short months!

The company says its direct methanol fuel cell will hit shelves before March 31 2009. There’s no word on which gadget it’ll turn up in first, but the firm showed off a mobile phone powered by the technology in Japan last week, and we’ve seen MP3 players packing it too.

Toshiba fuel cells

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In what could see a major escalation of tension between Iran and the West, Iranian security forces have announced that they have arrested two pigeons for spying.

Spying Pigeons

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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

- Hansell B. Duckett

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A chef has chomped his way through a burger weighing 15lbs in a marathon eating session.

He also chomped down 5.2lbs of toppings in the 4 hours and 39 minute marathon.

Belly-busting burger

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