Samsung's "hand-warming" cellphones
Dual-use technology: a nightmare for secretive governments, but a dream come true for us. No, we're not talking about hacking an Xbox to build your own missle-guidance system, but rather using an existing technology for new and exciting (and hopefully legal) purposes. Samsung, for instance, is promoting a formerly-problematic aspect of portable electronics (namely, their heat-dispersion) and cleverly marketing their sizzling cellies as "hand-warming phones." Although they claim that this is new tech developed at Russia's Ural State Academy, we have a sneaking suspicion that some shady OEM simply delivered a batch of defective batteries. "These batteries overheat and explode, you say? Rebrand and ship to Iceland! Bam!"
