For as smart as our phones have become, the battery life and charging constraints are pretty dumb. If you’re not a classically trained ‘always prepared’ Boy Scout that brings your charger everywhere, a dead phone has been a frequent foe. The phone taps out at the most inopportune times; when you really need to talk to someone, when you run into your favorite celebrity, or when you really need to play Angry Birds. Even if you brought your charger along, where are you going to find an outlet? Most establishments guard their electricity like L.A. Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick guards the net. Lucky for us, we live in the 21st century, a magical time where outlets will soon be a thing of the past.

We’ve all seen the spy movies where a pertinent message is delivered from HQ to the hero. To protect the agency, the message is always set to self destruct in a matter of seconds. In the case of Inspector Gadget, it made for some funny scenes of the message blowing up at inopportune times. The source and content of the message is safely destroyed and unable to be traced. In the 21st century, we all have secret agent type technology at our fingertips. We often say or send things we regret or that we prefer to remain private. Often times, the message leaks, and we’re been left to face the consequences of our texts, e-mails, and videos. That’s all about to change.

It’s Friday which means the weekend is here and excitement is in the air. It’s tough to read a full article during a celebratory time like this. Here are a few astounding facts for you to munch on as you kick back and relax.

The Sedo.com .Me week-long auction ended today with over $150,000 in sales. Here is a list of all of the domains that sold, and their final selling price. Although everyone would like to think they got a bargain for a particular domain, time will show that there were a fair number of both reaches and steals. It will be interesting to see how many of these premium names went to end-users (people who will build a website on them) and how many went to investors.

Children in the United States are raised differently based on their gender. Girls are given dolls, and boys are given guns. This early exposure embeds guns in our psyche, and leads us to long for bigger and better technology. Traditional bullets just aren’t cutting it these days, we need weapons that shoot cooler things. Engineers have been listening, if you see someone wielding one of the following guns, run.

Throughout most of human history, looking young has not been a major problem, mostly because people were dying on average at age 30. Now that the world’s average life expectancy has more than doubled to over 67 years, we’re desperately trying to find new ways to look younger. This point is exemplified by the hundreds of lotions, potions, injections and surgeries designed to help us maintain our youth. Most today are looking for that magic answer to live longer or look like we haven’t been alive that long. That magic remedy we’ve sought may be on the horizon in the form of telomerase gene therapy.

Needles have scared and scarred many since their youth, but few knew that fear was an actual condition. Trypanophobia, or fear of needles, affects over 31 million Americans today. Sufferers of Trypanophobia dread medical care and are likely to experience elevated heart rates and blood pressure in the time leading up to a procedure, with a dangerously sharp drop beforehand. With our reliance on needles for getting vital remedies into the human body, Trypanophobia has been a major problem. Fortunately, researchers at MIT have engineered a new method for getting patients the juice they need: jet injection.

Want a chance to own a premium one word domain name, but can’t afford a .com? The world’s largest domain name sales marketplace, Sedo, kicked off a week long auction today for some of the most amazing dot me (.me) domains in existence! .Me is the fastest selling top level domain (TLD) in history. Rick Schwartz, investor, entrepreneur and consensus King of the domain industry, believes that there are currently only three TLD’s worth investing in: dot com, dot tv and dot me. Rick would certainly know, he was part of a group of investors that sold the domain ‘Meet.Me’ for $450,000 in late 2011.

Greek philospher Aristotle was one of the first humans to ever study and attempt to define dreams. Aristotle believed that we lost all ‘common sense’ of what is real while we dreaming, allowing us to have indescribable visions in our heads. He was one of the first people on record to describe lucid (controllable and seemingly real) dreams, saying that “often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.”

Buddhism’s take on the issue predates Aristotle though, and those who practice this religion have consistently sought enlightenment through lucid dreaming. A main tenet of Buddhism is to follow the eightfold path; and one leg of that path is referred to as Right Mindfulness. Buddhist individuals must contemplate their state of mind, and state of phenomena in order to find reality; but how can I control my dreams without becoming Buddhist?

With gas prices at an all time high, people are scrapping their gas guzzlers for more eco-friendly bicycles. It’s tough to beat the dual benefits of toned legs and a rested wallet. While many consider riding a bike to be a smart move, there aren’t too many smart bicycles out there. A slew of big name companies are working tirelessly to change the way we get from A to B.