Dario Floreano and his team at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology built a swarm of mobile robots, outfitted with light bulbs and photo detectors. These were set loose in a zone with illuminated "food" and "poison" zones which charged or depleted their batteries...

Find out where your chicken and eggs come from and what the price difference is between organic and non-organic food. There's also some easy chicken and egg recipes.

$50 FDA-app. tech battery op. small unit f(MiniMate) or refrigerators eliminates germs, dangerous mold on food that can make family sick. Keeps veggies fresh/crisp preventing them from spoiling. Same tech. used commercially to keep veggies fresh on way to and in grocery stores. keeps food safer/healthier + saves money. No waste.

How does this sound: a battery capable of recharging to 90% in under 5 minutes while remaining useful for 10 years or more? Sounds like the stuff of jetpacks and food replicators right? Nope... March, 2008. It was a long, long time ago when we first brought you news of these so-called "Super Li-ion" batteries. In March of 2005 to be exact.

Anyone for more retro gaming via portable emulators? If you are, you must be interesting with this one. Sonic the supersonic hedgehog is coming to a portable console via Tec Toy. Tec Toy’s gaming PMP will only set you back £50 or around $100 and you can save even more via the AAA batteries, which is this gadget’s energy food of choice.

Factory farming is the practice of raising farm animals in confinement at high stocking density; and also sometimes used more generally to refer to treating farm animals as mere factory parts as is typical in industrial farming.Confinement at high stocking density is one part of a systematic effort to produce the highest output at the lowest cost by relying on economies of scale, modern machinery, biotechnology, and global trade. For example, while not strictly due to confinement or high stocking density, synthetic hormones may be used to speed growth as part of this overall industrial farming approach that treats animals as mere factory parts. Confinement at high stocking density requires antibiotics and pesticides to mitigate the spread of disease exacerbated by these crowded living conditions. There are differences in the way factory farming techniques are practised around the world.There is a continuing debate over the benefits and risks of factory farming. The issues include the efficiency of food production; animal welfare; whether it is essential to feed the growing global human population; the environmental impact and the health risks. Gerhard Schroeder, then German Chancellor, called for a re-think of factory farming methods in 2000 in response to Europe's BSE crisis (which while not caused by confinement at high stocking density, is caused by unnatural feed supplied to farm animals for the purpose of lower costs), and the risks to human health continue to be a concern to scientists.The UN and OIE estimate that in coming decades there will be billions of additional meat consumers in developing countries eating meat that was factory farmed in developing countries but currently only about 40 out of the around 200 countries in the world have the capacity to adequately respond to a health crisis originating from animal disease (such as mad cow, avian flu, West Nile virus, bluetongue and foot and mouth disease). Globalization turns this into an international problem and widespread use of antibiotics increases the chance of a pandemic resistant to known measures. Decreased genetic diversity increases the chance of a food crisis. "The World Bank, the U.N. and the World Organization for Animal Health or OIE are all working together on several levels regarding food safety, veterinarian services, packing and transportation."