Tag Archive for 'security'
Everyone knows that wandering alone in dark places can make one a bit nervous. You never know who’s out there, and what they might do to you. Sure, you can carry pepper spray, but to be effective you need to actually get it in their eyes. Stun guns are great, but they tend to be [...]
These days we seem to carry just about everything on our USB drives, from family photos to important client documents. While most of us wouldn’t be too upset if the pictures of our recent family trip to see grandma got into the wrong hands, we might not be quite as apathetic about our client documents. [...]
If you’ve ever looked longingly at the web-enabled security droids becoming more prevalent (and of, I sometimes wonder, dubious effectiveness - what if someone steals your $10,000 droid?) but haven’t the bank balance to fund your robot addiction then maybe you could take inspiration from Dean Shelato. He’s set himself the project of taking a [...]
Never mind James Bond - it looks like the police force are getting all the cool toys. Popular Science flagged down a cop-car and went shopping for some serious future law-enforcement tech, and came up with a list of must-haves that is by turns jaw droppingly cool or pants wettingly scary. As the environment that [...]
After the news that China has decided to force manufacturers to standardise phone charging ports to the mini-USB format, it turns out that there’s an even easier way to get the industry-wide feature you want implemented: just be the FBI. What cellphone manufacturers are reluctant to include in-among all the blurb about Bluetooth and high-speed [...]
“Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat” - so goes the old rhyme, but what it fails to mention is the fact that the festive period also often means a quick spell of playing tech-support for parents and relatives when you go back home. Because if there’s one thing that’s certain in this [...]
If your laptop is anything like mine then it contains pretty much everything you’ve ever created in digital form (bar some unrecoverable stuff from obscure proprietary floppy formats pre-IBM PC), and the thought of losing it makes you want to sit in a darkened corner and chant “breathe breathe breathe” while beating your head against [...]
Not many details on this one, but beyond the basic premise what exactly do you need to know? It’s a remote controlled, laser-guided squirrel-shooting garden gun, made by RC Groups forum member Imopar69. There’s a video of it in action here.
Obviously SlashGear does not condone firing anything at innocent animals. Girl Scouts selling cookies, however, [...]
When Vincent tested the OtterBox Rugged Laptop Case back in August, he ran it over with his Toyota 4Runner just to make sure it was up to the honoured task of protecting his MacBook. I wonder if Pelican will let him do the same with their 1495 Laptop Case, which they’re claiming is water proof, [...]
While the rest of the world was stressing over nano-technology turning into a great green mess and consuming us like electrochemically charged yum-packs, Japanese security company ALSOK was busy developing a series of killer death robots guard robots to protect and serve. Now, for the paltry sum of $10,000 to $20,000, you can have a [...]
