The baseball trade deadline came and went and my Blue Jays once again stood pat (hey, that used the be the same line a few years before they won the World Series back-to-back, when Pat Gillick was the GM).  But considering Roy Halladay's injury and that this is the year of really experimenting with some youngsters such as Gustavo Chacín, this has not been a bad year thus far, and the Jays are still in contention for a wild card spot.  Wonder if Om Malik would make a little wager for this weekend's series when the Evil Empire (aka the NY Yankees) visits Toronto...

In the spirit of baseball, here's a tech gizmo from Japan (via engadget) from the Ishikawa-Namiki Komuro Laboratory in Japan. The lab is engaged in studies of parallel processing for sensory information.  The gizmo is called a "high-speed catching system" and can catch fastballs up to 300 km/h.