prosthetic fingers...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/business/11novel.html
artificial hand... (prosthetic fingers). pretty cool!

Paul Erdos...

the followings are copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős

Other idiosyncratic elements of Erdős' vocabulary include:

• children were referred to as "epsilons";
• women were "bosses";
• men were "slaves";
• people who stopped doing math had "died";
• people who physically died had "left";
• alcoholic drinks were "poison";
• music was "noise";
• people who had married were "captured";
• people who had divorced were "liberated";
• to give a mathematical lecture was "to preach" and
• to give an oral exam to a student was "to torture" him/her.