Latin music fans rejoice. Now you can plug these suckers into your Wii and PLAY WITH YOUR MARACAS ALL DAY.

The German town of Molfsee plans to fight Google by inclusion into Google’s Street View feature of Google Maps and Google Earth. Local organizers in the town plan to force Google to seek a permit, which they will thereupon DENY. Google says they don’t need no stinking permit.

A 28-year-old English guy bought a Nikon Coolpix digital camera on eBay, and went on vacation. Upon his return, he downloaded his holiday snaps, and additionally the CLASSIFIED SPY PHOTOS THAT WERE ON THE CAMERA WHEN HE BOUGHT IT. It turns out the camera was used by the UK’s spy agency, MI6, and the…

Some guy in New York “did what he was told” to do by his GPS, took a wrong turn, got stuck, next his car was hit by a train. Since the use of a gadget automatically absolves the user of all personal responsibility, it was THE GPS’s FAULT. A similar event happened in January.

Researchers in the Medical College at the Georgia School of Medicine are developing touch screen kiosk that provides ANONYMOUS FEEDBACK from patients to doctors that physicians can monitor in real-time like a car dashboard. Patients are invited to supply feedback at a kiosk rating their experience. …

An artist named Evan Roth is working on a series of metal plates designed to be hidden inside luggage and viewable only through airport safety measure X-ray machines. The view is to send SECRET MESSAGES TO TSA EMPLOYEES. (props to Gizmodo)

It’s been possible for years to replicate TiVo’s TV-recording functionality on a PC. But on October 15, new $199 software/hardware hits that lets you USE YOUR TV AS A REAL TiVo. Called the Nero LiquidTV/TiVo PC, the software puts the TiVo user interface on your PC, and all the functions of a real Ti…