Blood Cell Phone

Sierra Leone is hardly the only place where lead and steel in the bodies of the poor are 'traded' for minerals in the shiny accessories of the rich. Ever wondered how many people in the Congo were killed or driven from their homes and deprived of food and shelter to make way for the mining of the coltan* in your pocket? Don't you just get a warm fuzzy feeling from being connected to the rest of the world through the wonders of modern technology?

*Coltan is short for columbite-tantalite, eerily fitting names for particles so implicated in violent hegemony and covetousness.