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The people of Sweden are an industrious lot, excelling at stuff that usually invovles much skill and manual dexterity. Small wonder than that every once in a while news pops up of a Swedish DIY at home project gone awry.

London’s Mayor, Boris Johnson wants WiFi to be more available in London, we heard a while back that the plan was to get it city wide before the 2012 Olympics, and now it looks like the plan also included installing WiFi on London’s many buses.

It looks like Google’s Chrome OS has been hacked by two security researchers who demonstrated the hack at the Black Hat security conference yesterday, and according to a report they used a web based attack to compromise the security of Google’s Chrome OS.

It wasn’t long ago that we reported that Google’s new social network Google+ had reached 10 million users, then we heard they were close to 20 million users, and now it looks like Google+ has 25 million users.

With the plethora of douche bag products that go along with the iPad and iPhone on the market today I honestly though the iArm might be real. I had to ask when someone sent me the photo alone if it was real or not. It’s not a real product thankfully, but I am surprised no one has made one of these yet. The product is a fake box that has photos of people doing strange things with the iArm.

LED Light networks have been under development for sometime, but the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin, Germany has now been pushing the technology to its limits and is hoping to create a 800Mbps WLAN using the LED light network technology.

Researchers at RIEN and Tokai Rubber Industries in Japan have developed a new robot which is designed to assist with nursing care, and it is capable of lifting a patient from the floor or a bed up to 80KG in weight and then it can move them to either a bed or a wheelchair.