Hacking geigers: Safecast crowdsources radiation data in Japan after Fukushima disaster

Advocates of nuclear energy point to the relatively small number of deaths from a nuclear disaster, at the time of the accident.  It serves their purpose to ignore the death & disease caused, not only to those exposed on the day, but to those exposed in the days, months & years following.   In Japan, something is being done about measuring the ongoing danger:

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/10/hacking-geigers-safecast-crow.html

Makoto Hirahara Bright Blind

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/10/makoto-hirahara-bright-blind/

PenGo Creative BrushPen for capacitive screens

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/10/pengo-creative-brushpen-for-capacitive-screens/

Smithsonian exhibits 100 years of electric vehicles

http://www.plugincars.com/smithsonian-national-museum-exhibits-100-years-electric-vehicles-109657.html