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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

There’s been heightened media coverage of tasering incidents lately. Most recently reports are that police tasered a pregnant woman in Ohio.
Alongside the “death by taser” fiasco in Vancouver, and the speeding ticket incident on a Utah highway, it would appear that it is ever more likely the cops are goind to apply the use of [...]