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The device used on Bradley Bernstein is a cattle prod. It used to be a long electrified rod, but the newer model is a handheld shocker about the size of a portable phone, with two short metal prongs. His mother says it delivers a shock about as painful as a bee sting. Critics say it's much stronger, akin to sticking a finger in an electric socket.

Samsung Electronics is putting the finishing touches on an 8 gigabyte chip -- a high-density embedded flash memory device capable of storing up to 2,000 songs on a cell phone. The South Korea-based company expects to begin mass producing the line of flash memory and firmware chips, called "moviNAND," by the end of the year.

A jet fighter sliced in half. An automatic rifle ripped asunder. The newest phone X-rayed. We tore open everyday devices and complex machines you've never seen to show you the extraordinary tech that makes them work.

Most of us believe that the little red standby light uses only a negligible amount of energy, but that's far from the truth.In the UK, devices left in 'sleep' mode waste about two power stations worth of electricity each year and produce the same amount of carbon as 1.4 million long haul flights.

Recently, I posted a tutorial on assigning different sounds to different devices, such as rock music to your headphones and classical music to your speakers. In this new tutorial, I show how to do the trick with only a couple clicks. Old tutorial: http://digg.com/microsoft/Vista_Trick_How_to_Assign_Audio_Sources_to_Different_Outputs