The project he whipped up, Good Times, feeds readings from the cat-eared electrode to an Arduino, which then interacts with the Call Management and M2M APIs.
In the meantime, a reflating of the Chinese bubble will be good news for American companies like Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) that are major exporters to China.
It's hard to think of a single good reason for Palm to implement iTunes syncing in webOS by spoofing the iPod, and then to play this cat-and-mouse game of hacks and workarounds with Apple.