From Canoe.ca Members of Sasquatch Watch of Virginia went camping in the rugged Allegheny Mountain highlands of the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area with GPS navigators, cameras, voice recorders and plaster of Paris to make casts of huge footprints, West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported… …The group took plaster casts of suspicious prints but didn’t spot the […]
From Wired.com In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in […]
The folks that brought you the Internet are still at it. The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the invention of a ‘blob-like’ robot which is able to inflate and deflate it’s body through a process called ‘jamming’, in which the robot’s synthetic (silicone) skin is changed back and forth from solid […]
There is nothing really new in this Wall Street journal article, yet its a nice summary of where we stand now and where we are heading in communication technology. I still do not have any motivation to use Twitter. If someone wants to follow my Tweets, let me know and I’ll consider it. The End […]
Navy destroyers with laser guns? Its still science fiction, but we’re one step closer to sailing the seas with laser beams. From the Wired Danger Room Blog: Navy Pushing Laser ‘Holy Grail’ to Weapons Grade There are lots of good links to other laser-related news. I didn’t realize the Danger Room had an entire sub-category […]
There was an interesting article in the NY Times a couple of days ago about environmental problems in China due to Solar Panel production. One of the components, polysilicon, has an extremely toxic byproduct that is damaging to the environment if not properly handled. This situation of robbing Peter to pay Paul is definitely not […]
Straight from the “holy crap does the man ever over-react these days file” comes this little story from the U.K. where they’ve been employing high frequency devices to drive off loitering and drunken teens in certain areas. Apparently, the pitch of the frequency is something that is only audible (and thus highly annoying, uncomfortable, and […]
Over ten years ago, I saw a video of a man who had created a portable computer rig. This thing consisted of a laptop he had strapped to himself, a key/button input device he had attached to his leg, and a special screen that was attached to his head and hung in front of his […]
A short, funny commentary on Apple’s Iphone by acclaimed film director David Lynch.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has once again proven their anti-consumer agenda which seeks to disempower consumers as much as possible in their personal use of recorded music. No longer does it suffice the RIAA to refuse new technology and instead use draconian copyright legislation to beat down emerging trends in the industry, […]
