1. The car tech industry is working on a cool seat belt latch that unhooks when wet helping to keep more people from drowning when their car is submerged. When water hits the inside of the Escape Belt a salt pill dissolves and releases the hammer of the male section of the belt freeing the occupant. It’s the same tech used by airlines in self-inflating life jackets. The mechanism costs around $40 and the cartridge needs to be changed every few years. Great stuff coming from this Dutch manufacturer.

2. London cabs are getting free wifi. You have to watch a 15-second ad every 15 minutes but that could be just what the doctor ordered if you’re trying to avoid roaming charges on your smartphone. Is it viable? Londoners will just have to wait and see.

3. This one is truly creep-worthy (is that a word? I’ll add a hyphen). The US is planning to listen in on people’s conversations on buses. “With the new systems, experts say, transit officials can effectively send an invisible police officer to transcribe the individual conversations of every passenger riding on a public bus.”  Watch out good people of Eugene, Ore.; San Francisco; Athens, Ga.; Baltimore; Traverse City, Mich.; Hartford, Conn.; and Columbus, Ohio because you seem to be the first to have this implemented. Big Brother is getting his ears on.