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ICYMI: Cellphone motor as mic and fuel from sunlight

Artificial photosynthesis creates gas from sunlight, CO2 and water.

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Updated Thu, Jun 9, 2016, 9:20 AM·1 min read

Today on In Case You Missed It: Researchers created a hack that lets a smartphone's vibration motor act as a microphone, picking up conversations unbeknownst to the user. Harvard University folk created fuel using artificial photosynthesis that is triple as effective as previous systems, making gas out of sunlight, CO2 and water.

And finally, YouTube user BOOM LLC Robotater has a pretty entertaining potato video on the site; if you're looking for the case that lets you switch an iPhone to Android, that's here. As always, please share any great tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.

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