Scientists have created a product which is 95% water in a powdered form. They had actually discovered it in 1968 but hadn’t found a use for it until now. It turns out to be extremely effective at absorbing CO2 gas which is thought to contribute to the greenhouse effect.

The powder is known as “dry water” because it is 95% water but is a dry powder. Each particle contains a droplet of water encased by chemically modified silica, the material that sandis made of. the coating of silica stops the water from combining with other droplets and becoming a liquid.There’s also several other uses for dry water like, as jumpstarting reactions and providing a safe way to transport and store harmful waste and chemicals.

Telecom XT has crashed again with text messages taking up to half an hour to send and many network features unusable.

According to a Telecom representative (after 35 minutes on hold):

There are some faults with the system handling SMS messages in some areas.

This message will be updated when a reply is received from the Telecom Media Relations Team.

Love Vinyls? Well now you can become one with a new company called Vinyly offering to press your charred remains into a vinyl for 2000 UK Pounds. With this package you get 30 vinyls, 24 minutes of music of your choice, £3500 gets you a cover portrait, £500 gets a song written and produced just for you, and £1000 gets your record distributed to stores all over the world. And they can also provide a £10,000 FUNeral, where you can be sure the DJ will be playing your record. They can also Vinylfy your dead pets!

Paul Allen (Co-Founder of Microsoft) Is suing Apple, Google, AOL, Facebook, ebay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube over 4 separate patents which cover key parts of how these companies do business For example, one patent allows suggestions for people, based on contents of the page they’re currently viewing, while another allows related articles to be suggested while reading the news. Basically, this guy (if these claims are true) owns A LOT of patents.

The lawsuit, (filed today), doesn’t reveal the amount of damages he is wanting. Allen is one of the richest men in the world, being worth an estimated $13 Billion.

As some of you may have heard, There is a new Apple TV due to hit the market sometime next Fall (Spring in NZ). It will sport internals similar to the iPhone 4 (A4 CPU, 16GB of flash storage) and will probably cost around $99USD. The new Apple TV will not support 1080p because it is not possible to crank out video of that definition using the processor that will be used in it, so the video will be limited to 720p.

Apple will also be officially renaming the device to iTV to match their current range of iDevices.

But it’s not all bad news… That’s right the Apple TV is getting an app store!

It is not yet clear whether it will run off (and share apps with) the current iPhone, iPad and iPod app store or have separate apps but we will find out at the full unveil sometime in Fall (Spring in NZ)

We will keep you posted on any new information we hear of.