Flight security
The US Air Transport Association is planning to tighten up protection against hijackers by requiring airline pilots and cabin crew to carry biometric ID cards bearing their fingerprint or iris scans.
Net phones
Mobile phones that treat voice calls like emails, splitting them up into packets of Internet data, are about to be launched in Japan by the telecommunications company KDDI. They’ll call any phone in the world for the price of a local call.
Fridge mountain
Britain now has 1 million old fridges it can’t get rid of. The government has signed up to a European recycling…
