on ultra private smartphones is written by david talbot. the story notes that black phone sells for $629 with subtractions to privacy protection services. that's one of the many measures that technologists are taking in response to the snowden revelations. we will go to the 10 breakthrough technologies of 2014 as listed by m.i.t. technology review. here are the numbers to call in -- this is not a new thing for m.i.t. technology review to do. you have been doing this for 14 years or so? theuest: that's right, first one of these lists came out in 2001. it's interesting to look back. people should go to technology review.com and and check it out. the earlier ones often protect some of the technologies that became big over the last decade and beyond. the first list included biometrics which is the measurement of personal characteristics for your identification, fingerprints or iris patterns. some fundamental medical research that we are now familiar with like rain machine interfaces was on their sore our track record is pretty good. host: it br