Sysop's blog

Bring It On: Electronic Displays... In your SKIN?

Sysop — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:44:59 +0000

I can't believe it either. Bonus: It checks your blood for disorders all the time.

Bring It On: Robots With Animal Brains!!!

Sysop — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:17:02 +0000

Oh yeah baby!

Bring It On: Sharks with laser beams on their heads!

Sysop — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:12:45 +0000

Well, not sharks; Humvees:

We first heard of Boeing's plan to mount a laser on a Humvee in July, but we weren't expecting results so soon -- yet here we are just a few months later and the company is already blowing stuff up with a truck-based "directed energy weapon." The one-kilowatt laser is retrofitted on Boeing's existing Humvee-mounted Avenger missile system, and tests have already demonstrated its effectiveness at taking out IEDs from a safe distance. More excitingly for the boom-boom crowd, the Laser Avenger has also managed to eliminate grounded UAVs, and Boeing says it's working on being able to target low-flying drones as well. That's all well and good, but we just want to know: how is it at making popcorn?

Go to the link for the obligatory Real Genius reference.

Bring It On: Invisible Tanks!!!!!!!11

Sysop — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:56:10 +0000

Oh. Now I'm getting hard:

In secret trials last week, the army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012. The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank. The result is that anyone looking in the direction of the vehicle only sees what is beyond it and not the tank itself. A soldier who was at the trials said, "This technology is incredible. "If I hadn't been present I wouldn't have believed it. "I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees - but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun."

Next? Invisible surprise buttsecks.

Bring It On! The Stand?

Sysop — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:45:06 +0000

Oh boy!

American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work. No one died, and regulators said the public was never at risk during these incidents. But the documented cases reflect poorly on procedures and oversight at high-security labs, some of which work with organisms and poisons so dangerous that illnesses they cause have no cure. In some cases, labs have failed to report accidents as required by law. The mishaps include workers bitten or scratched by infected animals, skin cuts, needle sticks and more, according to a review by The Associated Press of confidential reports submitted to federal regulators. They describe accidents involving anthrax, bird flu virus, monkeypox and plague-causing bacteria at 44 labs in 24 states. More than two-dozen incidents were still under investigation. The number of accidents has risen steadily. Through August, the most recent period covered in the reports obtained by the AP, labs reported 36 accidents and lost shipments during 2007 — nearly double the number reported during all of 2004.

(emphasis mine) Stupendous! Captain Tripps is on his way! Where would you end up: Boulder or Vegas? Be honest.

I'm Calling It Now

Sysop — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:06:25 +0000

The iPhone will be result in an almost total destruction of Apple's core business (consumer, hand-held electronics) due to a combination of Apple's draconian demands that all interface with their products be proprietary and (more importantly) the decision to use a non-patented interface on the iPhone/new iPods.

Microsoft's Zune will defeat the iPod circa 2012.

Write that down.

Attention: English Major Type Dorks.

Sysop — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:19:41 +0000

Check out this website of slangy/non-dictionary words.

Bring It On: Talking Computers

Sysop — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:04:49 +0000

Tea, Earl Grey, hot:

Instead of composing an e-mail on a PDA, says Leslie Spring, the company's chief technology officer, imagine instructing a handheld to "send an e-mail to Tom and tell him 'I'll be there in 10 minutes.'" Spring says that such a feature could be possible with the algorithms--based on 15 patents--that Cognitive Code has developed.

I can't wait until I can vocally instruct my phone to send Mike a picture of my ass.

Bring It On: ZOMBIES!!!!!

Sysop — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:14:30 +0000

They say it causes nausea and headaches but we all know what these classic signs lead to:

A fireball fell from the sky and slammed into southern Peru over the weekend, creating a huge crater that emitted a sickeningly smelly gas, local authorities said. More than 600 villagers fell ill, the Peruvian radio network RPP reported Tuesday.

Zombies! In an effort to embarrass the killer bees, it will take only (by my expert calculations) six months for their insatiable desire for human flesh to lead them to the U.S. border. I hope everyone is ready! (h/t: Instapundit)

DM of the Rings

Sysop — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:56:11 +0000

If you haven't seen this, go now and read the whole thing. It is amazing.

You gamers will appreciate it.