Consumer electronics giant Sony unveiled a prototype hand-powered digital camera called the "Twirl N' Take. " In the same vein as previous hand-powered radios and flashlights, 15 seconds of movement generates enough power to snap a photo. According to reports, the "Twirl N' Take" is shaped like a pizza cutter and includes 3-megapixel mobile phone digital camera technology. Sony doesn't plan to market the device.

The first South Korean who will fly to space next year will take and eat kimchi. Goh San, 31, made the spicy revelation during an interview in Moscow with local newspaper Dong-A Ilbo on Monday. Goh said he and two Russian cosmonauts will have sterilized and irradiated version of the traditional Korean fermented vegetable dish aboard their spaceship.

Flights of thousands of LaGuardia Airport passengers were delayed after tomato juice spilled over an X-ray machine causing it to malfunction. Passengers were brought to a near-standstill in security lines for hours.

Security experts have debunked the reported assassination of a Russian spammer and called it a hoax. On Thursday, a blog post on the website Loonov. com claimed a spammer named Alexey Tolstokozhev was shot in the head, "a clear mark of Russian hit men. " The news even made it to the popular technology website Slashdot. org, saying "Alexy Tolstokozhev was recently found murdered in his palatial spam-bought estate near Moscow. The implications of this hands-on method of system administration are staggering. "

Have you ever imagined the phone would ring - and it does? A number of BlackBerry and cell phone owners are reporting something similar - they imagine their device is vibrating as if there's a call, but there's no phone. In interviews, the AP talked with a number of owners of the popular mobile e-mail gadget about phantom technology. In once case, a public relations manager felt his BlackBerry vibrating against his leg, automatically reached for it, and found no device.