A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.

Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data Recorders” to be installed in all new automobiles and legislates for civil penalties to be imposed against individuals for failing to do so.

There have been reports for a few months that Apple would move away from the glass back of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S to a metal case. What if, however, that case wasn’t aluminum, as in the case of the iPad, but liquid metal, something Apple has a corner on due to an agreeement it penned with Liquidmetal Technologies in late 2010 giving Apple exclusive commercial rights?

That’s what Korean news site ETnews claims. says Apple will use Liquidmetal technology for the next iPhone, which the outlet boldly claims will be unveiled at Apple’s annual worldwide developers conference.