Interestingly enough, he inspired a new novelty that does just that—Pop Radio Sound Bites. Edison's "bite bar" enabled the near-deaf inventor to hear the sound of his phonograph through his inner ear by clamping his teeth onto a plate wired to vibrate. Sound Bites co-founder Andrew Filo brought the idea to his partner, David Capper, who recognized its potential in the burgeoning interactive candy market. Together, the two created novelty candies that allow you to listen to sound samples while licking a lollipop (Looney Tunes Sound Bites and Rugrats Sound Bites) and, now, Pop Radio Sound Bites. (OK, so the Sound Bites tale isn't as thrilling as that story about Watson and the invention of the telephone, but most telephones aren't sugary sweet, either.)

Hear Sweet Sounds Inside Your Head As You Try Out The First Lollipop/Radio That Lets You Listen To Your Favorite FM Radio Station
- INSIDE Your Head!

"The CardTalk gave us an effective means of playing a speaking record at a cost that would enable mass distribution in the villages. In years to come many tens of thousands would form the main tool used by Operation Mobilisation and other Christian organisations. One missionary working with the blind found the CardTalks ideal, and distributed them to Hindu and Muslim homes throughout India resulting in a number of people coming to the Lord.

"World Literature Crusade, with their 'Every Home Crusade' program faced the challenge that many thousands of homes in India, especially among the tribals, had no one who could read their literature. Permission was given for them to use our CardTalk design, but to have them made commercially, along with records in some hundred or more languages. In this way at least half a million more cardtalks were distributed."

A rare photo, released by the White House, shows Barack Obama fielding calls from a tent in Brazil, to keep up with events in Libya. The tent is a mobile secure area known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, designed to allow officials to have top secret discussions on the move.

They are one of the safest places in the world to have a conversation.

Designed to withstand eavesdropping, phone tapping and computer hacking, Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities - also known as SCIFs - are protected areas where classified conversations can be held.

We should all stop blogging/tweeting/etc and instead do video keynote presentations like this: Way cool.