Earlier this week, Wired posted a Halloween story which showed how to “Make the Ultimate Haunted House“. Now for me, fake blood and smoke doesn’t really qualify for the ‘Ultimate’ banner. If you want to move beyond the kid’s stuff you have to try something a little crazier than that, and perhaps do something like [...]
An Oral History of the Internet – How the Web Was Won Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A computer has been trained to “read” people’s minds by looking at scans of their brains as they thought about specific words, researchers said on Thursday. They hope their study, published in the journal Science, might lead to better understanding of how and where the brain stores information. This might lead to [...]
A recently declassified US Army report on the biological effects of non-lethal weapons reveals outlandish plans for “ray gun” devices, which would cause artificial fevers or beam voices into people’s heads. The report titled “Bioeffects Of Selected Nonlethal Weapons” was released under the US Freedom of Information Act and is available on this website (pdf). [...]
At just over two inches long it is the world’s smallest gun – but the 300mph bullets it fires mean it is still deadly Read all about it here: Introducing the world’s smallest gun that fires deadly 300mph bullets – but is just TWO inches long | the Daily Mail