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Ustream links families for the holidays

By Christina Crouch on Monday, Dec 17th 2007 2 Comments

UstreamNothing is more important than family during the holidays. It’s often a time of depression for people who are without someone dear to them. We all need hope, family and love around this time and that includes the soldiers who are out there fighting and can’t be with us at home.

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Hackers have broken into the two most important science labs in the US

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Dec 7th 2007 2 Comments

The first is Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which I assume is somewhere near Oak Ridge Nuclear facility in Tennessee. The second was the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the famous site of the A-Bomb testing and development.

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Microwave Beam Used to Stop Cars Dead

By Christina Crouch on Tuesday, Dec 4th 2007 51 Comments

Eureka Aerospace in Pasadena, California has developed a new way to stop vehicles with drivers that think high speed car cashes are fun. By using the same technology found in microwaves they have created a device that will fry a car’s electrical system and stop it dead in its tracks.

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Send in the Drones

By Christina Crouch on Thursday, Nov 29th 2007 No Comments

MAVWhen your manpower is lacking it’s only plausible to turn to your laboratory to build something or another to do the work you’re incapable of handling. It’s simple (Mad Scientist) logic. So it’s easy to understand why the Miami police have come to this same conclusion.

Starting next year, FAA willing, the Miami police force will be using drones to patrol areas during SWAT team and tactical operations. The MAV (Micro Air Vehicle) is made by Honeywell and soar over 10,000 feet. These unmanned units, which the military has been using for sometime, will be controlled via a remote used only by licensed pilots.

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Gun camera tests

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Oct 31st 2007 1 Comment

Images GUN CAMERASNo, it’s not a camera that shoots bullets or a gun that shoots cameras, it’s a camera that mounts onto a gun that the Orange County Sheriff’s department is getting to test. Albeit no the most pleasing task carrying around a gun that will record every shot you make, it could expose how poor your accuracy is, or worse yet show the real serial killer you are.

I honestly don’t know what the purpose of this tech is on a day to day basis, unless they want to drive an office mad by making them watch their recent shooting victim slowly have the life leave their body. Other than that it will make YouTube a lot more interesting.

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Halo Rocket Launcher equally fun in real life

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Sep 24th 2007 No Comments

A reader from Gizmodo got the pleasure of toying around with a real life AT4 Anti-Armor Bazooka. It’s made by SAAB and I would assume its hard as hell for a civilian in the US to get their hands on one, but hey, some guys have all the luck.
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The gentleman described his experience firing the weapon as being “the loudest thing you can imagine” he went on to list other weapons he had fired that are considered quite loud as well to further re-enforce his point of how loud this was. He also said that the air around him heated by what seemed like 50 degrees, that’s pretty amazing.

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A Hacker’s project reconnects our troops in the desert with the outside world again

By James Allan Brady on Saturday, Sep 22nd 2007 No Comments

First of all, I just wanted to clarify that hackers are not bad people, furthermore, they are generally not the perpetrators of malicious attacks. What they are, are highly skilled, well educated professionals who are masters of their craft that should be revered for their work, and receive some level of adoration for what they have done for the technology world as a whole, both the software and hardware portions.
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Now that that’s out of the way, a particular hacker carrying the nick of Deviant Ollam has started sending out hard drives, I assume in enclosures so they can be connected via USB, to our soldiers. The hard drives already have a lot of music and movies, and other media on them, and then the soldiers are supposed to get what they want off of it and then add their music, movies, and more and send it along.

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Silent Guardian pain ray gun gets tested by journalist

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Sep 20th 2007 No Comments

Why is it that these journalists are always willing to jump in front of all these non-lethal weapons? This past year it was all the new tazers they came out with, now its military and police riot control weapons, how dumb are these guys?

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Regardless, another one of them was willing to hop in front of the Army’s latest, a ray gun not of death, just intense pain. Its called Silent Guardian, and they hate it when you call their ray gun a ray gun. It has a range of half a mile, which means you should be able to see it just before it brings you to your knees with so much pain some Excedrin just won’t cut it.

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Camo Toilet Paper “They’re Wiping Out The Rear!”

By James Allan Brady on Saturday, Sep 15th 2007 2 Comments

Just in case you need to keep your business classified, you can now use camouflage toilet paper. I really don’t think there is a practical use to using camo toilet paper, as if you were somewhere where you were doing your business in the open, you’d probably use a leaf instead of toilet paper.

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The novelty of it is kind of funny though. So I suppose if you are going to theme your restroom ala a hunting or military theme, this addition couldn’t hurt, at least not anything but your wallet.

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New Humvee for military use

By James Allan Brady on Saturday, Sep 15th 2007 No Comments

Lets start by making a list of things you wouldn’t want in any vehicle for the military, we’ll start with packing materials, including foam, then lets go to wood, most specifically Balsa, which is quite possibly the weakest wood there is, right, that’s a good start no? Wrong. Guess what the new Humvees have in them?

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Fiberglass, Balsa wood, foam, and carbon, all of which, put in the right places, causes the original Humvee to shed about 900 pounds of excess weight. That doesn’t mean that the new Humvees are 900 pounds lighter, no all that weight was added back on in armor and mine blast protection.

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