You can send things to phones to make them crash? Really? This is news?

Man I can't count the ways I can make phones crash. Let us know when you've found out how to make them work.

Go read your phone bill. If it's itemized, it will show you how many text messages you used, and how much you're paying for your text messaging plan.

I checked mine. I'm paying an effective rate of less than $0.0385 per message, but I only send a few texts. If I sent more, it would cost less per message.

So how's your effective rate? Good. If not, you're a sucker and you should have switched to a cheaper plan.

As for the professor at the University of Waterloo, maybe he's a professor of comparative literature or something. Certainly he's never tried to size a system for an expected peak load, because he'd have the sense to know that sizing for 100x the traffic costs a lot more money.

Sweet! I want a ride in the Photon Torpedo!

BurBerry. For all your chav friends.

Tea, Earl Grey, hot.

Intelligent, single-seat vehicle? Looks like someone in Japan already has some spy pix from the research lab:

http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/parts/image_for_link/16415-563-10-2.html

Probably won't get the same mileage as the Prius...