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Rubin 23.05.2012 14:48 1 comment

Lower House gets own shooting ranges

Two shooting ranges have been set up inside the State Duma in central Moscow, allowing MPs to hone their weapons skills for free.

 
Remee masks as shown on kickstarter.com. 21.05.2012 20:23 6 comments

Morpheus Mask: Be your own dream driver

What would you do if you could control your dreams? It is a question that has tantalized sages and philosophers for ages. Now, two hip millennials from Brooklyn have created a mask that will put you in the driver’s seat of your own lucid dream.

Strawberry bed at i-Ogorod farm. 20.05.2012 22:42 3 comments

Farmville reinvented: Internet gardens bring real fruits

Imagine having your own garden, where you can grow fruit and veg without picking up a spade, or even leaving your desk. This is the reality for Muscovites, who can bear real fruits from their Internet gardens.

 
Still picture from Dave Hurban`s video on kaleidoscopekreative.com 12.05.2012 17:58 15 comments

No strings attached: Man inserts magnets into wrist to hold iPod (PHOTOS)

How far can you go to worship your favorite Apple device? A man from New Jersey demonstrated whimsical creativity as he inserted tiny magnets into his arm to hold his iPod Nano.

Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman (AFP Photo / Joe Parker) 03.05.2012 18:44 6 comments

I believe I can fly: Jetman soars over Rio (VIDEO)

Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy, known as Jetman, has performed another breathtaking flight. This time he spread his wings over Rio de Janeiro.

 
A still shot from the video uploaded to YouTube by FPSRussia 23.04.2012 21:39 4 comments

‘Prototype’ quadrotor brings death and destruction from above

So, ‘guns don’t kill people, people do?’ Not for long. At least that's what the author of this incredible video says. A remote-controlled quadrotor equipped with a machine gun and a self-destruct module is indeed a deadly weapon of the future.

Reuters / Allison Joyce 19.04.2012 22:14 28 comments

Coupe Snoop: Congress wants all cars to be equipped with recording devices

The federal government is about to become the country’s worst backseat driver. Congress wants to put tracking devices in the car of every American, and that’s not even the scariest provision in a new bill being passed around Washington.

 
French designer Philippe Starck  (Reuters/Jacky Naegelen) 13.04.2012 21:55 1 comment

Philippe Starck’s next monumental design: a new Apple TV?

Apple is expected to unleash a product before the year’s end unlike anything they’ve ever released, and world renowned designer Philippe Starck has confirmed that he has been working close with the company on the item for the last eight years.

Flying car Terrafugia Transition is shown at the 2012 New York International Auto Show on April 5, 2012 (Reuters / Allison Joyce) 06.04.2012 04:54 29 comments

Flying car unveiled: Impressive, possibly impractical (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

For decades science fiction writers, and their more practical cousins, engineers, have dreamt of building a flying car. Now that one is about to arrive on the market, the real question emerges: what are flying cars actually for?

 
A worker performing routine maintenance on a surveillance camera (AFP Photo / Valery Hache) 24.03.2012 14:14 26 comments

Big Brother may now single you out from the masses

Blending into the background may become a thing of the past. A new Japanese security camera has the ability to search millions of faces with one click. An image captured on the Orwellian invention can also search other databases to track people.

A tracking microchip similar to the ones embedded in Brazilian school uniforms. 23.03.2012 23:44 18 comments

Brazilian schoolchildren forced to wear tracking chips to combat truancy

Those who worry about technology eroding human rights have long predicted that it’s only a matter of time until a person’s every movement is tracked by the authorities. Now that time has come – with 20,000 Brazilian schoolchildren being “chipped.”

 
Sky Pirates: Torrent site’s drone server solution. 20.03.2012 19:09 21 comments

Drones to host Pirate Bay servers flying over intl waters

Controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has had more than its share of legal troubles over the past few years – investigations, raids, fines. Now the site has come up with a radical new plan: hosting its servers on unmanned flying drones.

In America, TV watches you: CIA to spy on people through household items. (Reuters / Thomas Peter) 17.03.2012 08:04 62 comments

In America, TV watches you: CIA to spy on people through household items

With a growing number of ‘smart gadgets,’ spying on homes may start to become much easier. In fact, CIA Chief David Petraeus admitted that Americans were effectively bugging themselves and making it easy for spy agencies to peek in on their lives.

 
OWS: The video game 09.03.2012 01:58 3 comments

Occupy Wall Street: The video game

It’s a team-building exercise that's both built in a box on wheels and battery-powered; it’s one part Pong, two parts cooperation and arguably addictive enough to occupy hours of your time.

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The  Suspicious Activity Reporting Mobile application 08.03.2012 03:46 10 comments

Shutter, then shudder. Spy-app sends smartphone pics to police

Snitching has eventually entered the digital age thanks to a new smartphone app that lets anyone, anywhere tell the police: “Hey! That’s kind of weird!”

 
A male traveler submits to a full body scan before heading to his flight at Pittsburgh International Airport. (Jeff Swensen / Getty Images / AFP) 07.03.2012 19:57 31 comments

Naked truth: TSA nude scanner exposed – 'you can sneak anything past them!' (VIDEO)

A blogger has shown that all the Transport Safety Association’s controversial nude body scanners and much-too-personal pat downs are not effective in the least, as more and more people in the US speak out against the “advanced” security measures.

NY Senator Charles Schumer is concerned over what info cell phone companies can obtain. 07.03.2012 00:02

Senator asks for FTC probe on Apple and Android

A Senator from New York State is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate if the privacy policies users must agree to on iPhone and Android devices really do much at all to protect the customer’s personal information.

 
AFP Photo / Pool / Jacques Brinon 28.02.2012 15:47 7 comments

Google Wanted: $1 million to hack Chrome

The IT giant Google has offered hackers a reward of up to $1 million for pinpointing vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser.

Google got around Microsoft's privacy policies. 22.02.2012 02:56 8 comments

Google got around Microsoft's privacy policies too

If you read the recent reports that explain how Google exploited a flaw in Apple’s mobile browser to potential spy on its users, you might have wondered if you were among the victims. As it turns out, engineers at Microsoft pondered the same thing.

 
Photo by Vitaly V. Kuzmin (from vitaly.livejournal.com) 20.02.2012 00:06 5 comments

Terror from the deep: Russian zap cannons go for bigger fish

Hijackers and suicide bombers can be stopped with checkpoints and metal detectors. But how do you fend off underwater terrorists? Russian security services have found the answer: hi-tech electric stun cannons.