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Belgian Prison Metal Detectors Fail On ‘Pretty, Young Lawyers’

A Belgian jail’s metal detector falters whenever attractive lawyers visit, allegedly because it’s too sensitive to the underwire in bras. To ensure they’re not packing guns, the lawyers are then asked to remove their bras to enter the jail.


July 14, 2010

Sure Beats The Weather Channel

We all check the weather in habitual, niche ways. Some watch the news, others glance at their phones. And others still? They require nothing short of 6000 windows illuminated by 72,000 RGB LEDs that abstractly report the weather.


December 2, 2009
Mobile

Stolen Belgian iPhones Traced To Russian Black Market

Remember that $US3M iPhone 3GS heist in Belgium last month? Burglars nabbed 3,000-4,000 handsets. Now, according to blogs uncovered by Cult of Mac, they’re being offloaded in Russia (where the 3GS isn’t available) in batches of 100-cash only.


Optical Sensor-Laden Skin Gives Robots A Softer Touch

As robots become more involved in delicate tasks such as autopsies or surgeries, we need their touch to be as precise and sensitive as possible. To have that, we’ll need to give them a skin-like surface full of optical sensors.


November 24, 2009
Science

Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not In A Coma – 23 Years Later

Rom Houben has been trapped in a series of worst nightmares, including trying for 23 years to alert those around him that he was not in a coma. A new report suggests he’s not alone in his experience.


November 18, 2009
Geek Out

$US3m Worth Of iPhones Stolen In Belgium Heist

A company named CEVA Logistics was housing somewhere between 3000 and 4000 iPhones in a warehouse when intruders climbed up a fire ladder and sliced a hole through the roof.


December 10, 2008

E-Wave Chip Protects Against Scary, If Not Scientifically Proven, Threat of Mobile Phone Radiation

Mobile Phone radiation is spawning worries that it can do everything from making sperm stupid to popping popcorn… which means it’s prime time to start selling “cures” like this “radiation reducing” E-wave phone chip.


April 25, 2008
Science

Belgian Students Break Mentos-and-Coke World Record

Here’s what you do when you’re a student in the Belgian town of Leuven. You don a blue plastic poncho alongside 1,499 undergraduates, all standing in line at very long table, on which is placed a bottle of Diet Coke and a Mentos. On the count of three, having raised your hood, you drop the mint in the plastic bottle, and 1,500 fountains of sticky drink erupt simultaneously. More pics below. Update: We’ve stuck a video up there, as well.