Archive for the 'Technology' Category
This Week in Directed Energy Pain Weapons
September 17th, 2009Via: Wired: Whether you’re trying to control a disturbance at a food-distribution center, get a convoy through a packed junction or determine who the bad guys are in a crowd, it’s not always a good idea to have a lethal force as your only option. That, at least, is the thinking behind the Thermal Laser […]
Unmanned Systems North America 2008
September 16th, 2009Research Credit: Pookie
Flashback: People Injected With Flu Vaccines Will be Issued Bracelets with Tracking Codes
September 16th, 2009Oh sure. Via: Boston Globe: Using technology originally developed for mass disasters, Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment – one of the first in the country – aimed at eventually creating a citywide registry of everyone who has had a flu vaccination. The resulting vaccination map would allow swift intervention in neighborhoods […]
Military Robot Hops Over Walls
September 16th, 2009Via: BBC: Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m (25ft) high. Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot – which is being developed for the US military – uses its four wheels to get around. But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated “leg” to […]
NASA Rocket to Create Clouds
September 15th, 2009Possibly Related: HAARP Via: Live Science: A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth’s atmosphere. The project, called the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE), plans to trigger cloud formation around the rocket’s exhaust particles. The clouds are intended to simulate naturally-occurring phenomena called noctilucent clouds, […]
Internet Firms Help Canadian Courts ID Authors of Controversial Email
September 14th, 2009Related: The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity Via: Daily Finance: Internet users everywhere would do well to take heed. Your emails — and maybe even your Google searches — could be one subpoena away from the prying eyes of federal authorities, not to mention private litigants.
Sonic Crowd Control Weapons at Congressional Townhall Meetings in San Diego County
September 12th, 2009Listen closely around 1:40: Via: East County Magazine: “Long-range acoustic devices [LRADs] for crowd control can be extremely dangerous. These are used in Iraq to control insurgents. They can cause serious and lasting harm to humans…We want to know WHY our Sheriff Dept has this weapon,” Sal Magallanez of San Diego-based Liberty One Radio said […]
Mice Levitated in Lab Using Magnetic Fields
September 11th, 2009Via: Live Science: Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields. Other researchers have made live frogs and grasshoppers float in mid-air before, but such research with mice, being closer biologically to humans, could help in studies to counteract bone loss due to reduced gravity over long spans of time, as might be expected in […]
Broadband South African Style: 4GB USB Drive Attached to a Pigeon
September 10th, 2009Wow. You’ve seen the end of my bitching about my Internet connection. Via: BBC: Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery – but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon. A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick […]
‘E-Bomb’ Doomsday Conference
September 10th, 2009Via: Wired: It’ll fry pace makers, destroy iPhones, and turn laptops into useless paperweights. It’s the scariest thing most people outside the Washington Beltway have never heard of: electromagnetic pulse weapons. And you can learn all about it starting today at the EMPACT conference in Niagara Falls, New York. Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, is a […]
