For one reason or another, the phone dialed 911 and picked up a conversation he was having with his friends about stealing a Cricket phone and a car stereo (An impressive haul...if it was 1985). A snippet of audio from the 911 call is available courtesy of Phoenix New Times. It is is difficult to make out what is being said, but the interesting portion is as follows:

"It was bolted down — I had to rip it out," a voice can be heard saying on the recording released by Peoria cops. "It took all my energy to lift it out of the car."

After the signal was triangulated, an officer was dispatched to the scene where he found the suspect holding the car stereo in his hands. He was written up for felony vehicle burglary, but it will be up to the juvenile courts to decide his fate. [Phoenix New Times via CNET via Fark]

[Daily Mail via Crunchgear]

The device has just been awarded two separate patents by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, so you can expect to see these out in force at sobriety checkpoints sometime soon. On the bright side, you might make it on TV as the latest guy on COPS pressed face down onto the hood of a car with no shirt on. [Hawkeye via Press Release via Ubergizmo]

While it's difficult to believe that three major corporations could violate a patent after so much time and investment in the Cell, Sony was forced to pay big bucks to Immersion for their rumble technology used in PS2 controllers (since absent in the PS3's SIXAXIS). If PPC has a legitimate claim, expect the PS3 to become even less profitable for Sony. [gamespot]

"Dual-mode" allows both signals to be downloaded to a radio at once, as if you were receiving AM and FM concurrently. But that difference—between needing or not needing to switch between music providers—would not be worth the cost of upgrading components to most consumers.

Let me make this one clear to Sirius and XM: if you offer me both services through the stuff I already own, you have a much better chance of up-selling my subscription.

[orbitcast]
We stole their nice picture, too.

It has 42 infrared emitters that surreptitiously light up moving critters within 50 feet, and its pictures or video are stamped with the time and date, as well as the moon phase and temperature. You can have its burst mode shoot one to nine pictures at a time, or set it to capture 5 to 90 seconds of video. This looks like it would be great for catching animals—human or otherwise—in the act. No pricing or availability was announced yet. – Charlie White

Product Page [Stealthcam, via Be Sportier]