Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
In these times of high tech ease dropping and possible 24/7 survalience you might want to think about getting one of these hats.
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Before you buy your tinfoil hat, learn more about the properties of Aluminium foil. It could save your life!
Aluminium – Attributes and Properties of Aluminium Foil
So cool! These are just one of the coolest things ever. I think the ultimate version would have beefed up suspension so you could move over good sized rocks, stereo cameras and a set of VR glasses (with an adjustable parallax so you could either drive a little tank or a full sized one), a set of IR sensors to detect hits and an visible/IR laser on the main gun (with an program that will simulate the reload cycle and maybe windage). A few of those in your back yard would be quite the evening.
R/C Tanks
Pretty cool, you can use the ‘cross eye’ method to spot the differences, when you do they jump right out.
Find The Slight Difference in the Photos
Oh wow… This would be so much fun. Its a motion or remotly activated foam disc shooter. Like a kinder gentler versio of the robot guns in Aliens. Deploy a few of these to cover the coutch and Fido won’t stand a chance…
This article is notable for the sponsor: DARPA. “Artificial limbs for amputees.” Right.
Research On Artificial Muscles Could Lead To Advanced Limbs For Amputees, Robots
-Greg
(From what I have read the military is looking for a device that will let a fighting man carry his own body weight in equipment without slowing him down or running out of power in a short time. Think ‘techno trousers’ – John)
You ever get the feeling that someone is doing this just as a personal joke? I mean, I can see some guy sitting around the house betting his buddies that he can make the US government chase it’s own tail. The bet is accepted and we get news like this:
watch-lighters and watch-altimeters
Anyway, if you think about it (no, I suspect that the TSA people are not asked to do this) the only way you could use a watch with a barometric altimeter as a trigger mechanism would be to have the watch loaded as luggage in an unpressurized cargo hold. I think the big idea about all the hoo-haa you go through when you check your bags is to make it impossible for a passenger to get anything into the holds once its been through security. Thus, why check your watch to see if it is an altimeter? Does the TSA think that this kind of watch is being used as some sort of terrorist marking device? I must be missing something… Next thing you know laser pointers will be outlawed because they could dazzle a pilots eyes. I’m waiting for those to be pulled off the market… Baka.