Now Smell This Department: A new technology called “dog on a chip” may soon make drug sniffing dogs obsolete. Researchers at Georgia Tech (Alice Father’s Alama Mater) have developed a sensor that is more accurate and faster than other sensors and drug-sniffing dogs. That may be, but nothing strikes terror into a smuggler than the site of a German Shepard heading their way.

New Buzzword Department: Unihabited Aerial Vehicles or UAVs are the fancy way of saying drone. Drones are quickly being used to do everything from monitoring traffic to dropping bombs and that is just the beginning. Some commentators have even suggested that Lockheed Martin’s high-tech F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may be the last inhabited fighter plane needed. At the very least, analysts say, drones can be used for potentially dangerous environmental monitoring, such as checking air quality for chemical and biological weapons.

Video games are besting the box office again this year, but not all is rosy in Mario-Land. According to a new study, the gaming console market is heading for a cyclical spiral with shipments expected to fall more than 2 million units below 2002’s tally. It may just be that everyone has a Playstation2 and it’s time for some new innovation on the hardware side.

Wal-Mart may considering its own line of notebooks according to PC World. The retailing behemoth has approached a Taiwanese notebook maker about whipping up a product line. We’ll be waiting for the Safeway File Server.

Antec, reknowned maker of computer enclosures, wants everybody to just shut up! Well, okay, it really wants to let everyone know how to make their computers work more quietly. There’s even a part in French should you swing that way. If you want to get rid of that buzzing in your ears, this might be for you!

According to Reuters, long-distance telephone company AT&T Corp. said it filed a lawsuit against PayPal Inc. and eBay Inc., saying their online payment systems violated its patent on secure Internet payments.

A Belgium newspaper, Gazet van Antwerpen is reporting that the family of a recently deceased motorcyclist are suing the funeral firm they chose, after the dead man’s cell phone started ringing - from inside the coffin.

There’s absolutely nothing to say about him, just that this is the richest man in the world. I mean, HE is the RICHEST man in the WORLD, if not the entire solar system! Wouldn’t you like to rummage behind the cushions on his couch for loose change? Do you think he clips coupons or looks for free shipping deals or checks price comparisons when he shops the Internet?