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New cell phones can send messages and take photos. Now for $35, your cell phone can become a lie detector too. The Truster, Emotion Reader TNF-100A, from 911Tech Co. judges the voice intonations of the people you’re speaking to in order to determine their “emotional, cognitive, and physiological” states and can tell you whether or not they’re lying.

It’s about the size of a small MP3 player, and fits in the palm of your hand. You can take voice sample by simply pointing the device at the speaker, or you can connect it to your cell phone if you want to question someone at a distance.

As the person speaks, symbols are shown on the screen. A partially eaten apple denotes truthfulness, while a lid being blown off a pot shows stress and lies.
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Imagine walking through your neighborhood and suddenly noticing that all the plants have turned brown. A sudden drought? No?a terrorist warning. Lakshmi Sandhana writes in the Christian Science Monitor that plants are being genetically engineered to turn fluorescent green or sickly brown within minutes or hours of exposure to chemical weapons. They would be mainly planted along airport runways or around military or industrial sites.
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The latest guess about the dictator with 9 lives (Saddam Hussein) is that he was wounded in the first bombing raid of the Iraq war and killed in the Baghdad restaurant bombing on April 7 because “the command and control just disappeared after the first bombing raid,” according to a U.S. intelligence official.

Meanwhile, Syria has been smuggling Saddam’s aides to Belarus (where some think Saddam may be hiding), Lebanon, North Africa and other countries. They want all former Iraqi government officials out of Syria in order to avoid a U.S. attack. Many of Saddam’s family members fled to Syria just before the war. Now Saddam’s wife Sajida and her three children have been put on planes and flown to Libya and Belarus, while other family members were taken to Lebanon.
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In Japan, a group called Panawave has driven a caravan of cars up into the mountains to await what they believe will be the end of the world when planet X passes by the Earth on May 15. In his latest Journal, Whitley Strieber writes, “There is no Planet X?not at least, in the apocalypse-producing form that has been claimed for the past few years.” This impending apocalypse is predicted on several websites but, as Whitley says, “There is no astronomical evidence that a large and destructive body is anywhere near our solar system, let alone moving through it.”
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