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Ever wish you could "turn off" that annoying cell phone chatter we hear everywhere around us these days? Well maybe you can: Japan has invented a "shut up" machine that painlessly forces people to be quiet. And it’s portable!

It works by recording its target’s speech, then firing their words back at them with a two second delay, which affects the brain’s cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter, then silences them completely.

If people start carrying these jammers around in their pockets, cell phone yackers may start using less happy language, because the truth is that English contains mostly POSITIVE words.
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Which ear do you use for your cell phone? If you’re a left brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear. There is a strong correlation between brain dominance and the ear used to listen to a cell phone, with more than 70% of participants holding their cell phone up to the ear on the same side as their dominant hand.

Your left brain is the more logical side, while the right side is more creative and intuitive. Left brain dominate people, whose speech and language center is on the left side of the brain, are more likely to use their right hand for writing and other everyday tasks.
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Do you have the wrong kind of phone? New research shows that some of the smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass Android’s security features, making them more vulnerable to attack. Android has the largest share of the smartphone market in the US.
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