Friday June 27 2014 Upcycled smartphones to help fight poaching in Africa This innovative project of the Zoological Society of London and Californian start-up Rainforest Connection uses old Android smartphones to create a real-time highly sensitive monitoring system to provide immediate warning about illegal logging or poaching in African rain forests. What a great idea! A proof that disused technology could serve the most honourable purposes. Make controls more intuitive, investigators say to Boeing I’m not qualified to judge whether Boeing’s controls are intuitive enough or not, but I find really scary that so called experienced pilots could have committed … Continue reading Hot news! E&T news weekly #8 – we choose our favourite news stories from the week