You may have heard the news that Amazon has opened up their Dash Wand to everyone, meaning that it is no longer just for users of their Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service. Here’s what the Dash Scanner Wand is, and what it isn’t.

Romance novel expert Sarah Wendell was perusing some romance ebooks rendered by running old romance novels through OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software, when she noticed something unusual. Lines such as “Mrs. Tipton went over to him and put her anus around his neck,” and “When she spotted me, she flung her anus high in the air.”

Mere days after Apple released the iPhone 5s, with its new “Touch ID” fingerprint identity sensor scanner, the Chaos Computer Club announced that it had “successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple’s TouchID using easy everyday means”. But does this mean the fingerprint recognition technology is useless? We say not.

Technology is dangerous.  At least that’s the message of two claims this week (one that’s heading to a lawsuit).  A 24 year old womanr has claimed that tumbling off her Wii fit has created an insatiable urge to tumble into bed as it made her a nymphomaniac.  And a teen girl has claimed through her attorneys that having a handheld barcode scanner flashed at her face has given her Tourettes Syndrome.