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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Weapons

Update: Oops, the MEDUSA Mind Control Ray Gun Will Actually Kill You

12:00AM Jack Loftus | The MEDUSA crowd control ray gun we reported on earlier this month sounded like some pretty amazing–and downright scary–technology. Using the microwave auditory effect, the beam, in theory, would have put sounds and voice-like noises in your head, thereby driving you away from the area. Crowd control via voices in your head. Sounds cool. However, it turns out that the beam would actually kill you before any of that happy stuff started taking place, most likely by frying or cooking your brain inside your skull. Can you imagine if this thing made it out into the field? Awkward! More »
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Vehicles

The T3 Makes a Guy Wearing a Bike Helmet on a Scooter Scary as Hell

7:20AM Sean Fallon | For the most part, I wouldn’t consider a police officer or military personnel riding down the road on a scooter as intimidating. However, if that scooter happens to be Lamperd Less Lethal’s new T3 Mobile Defender, there is definitely something to be worried about. The vehicle comes equipped with a powerful air gun that is considered non-lethal in a body shot, but could potentially kill someone if they were to take a synthetic bullet to the head. That is why the gun utilises a holographic sight system to ensure accuracy. More »
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Online

Crowd-Source Design Site Kluster Launches Digg Competitor Called Knewsroom

8:20AM Wilson Rothman | What the hell does a product-design site like Kluster have in common with a community-filtered news service like Digg? They both use vibrant communities of enthusiastic—and perhaps overly opinionated—people to make decisions. Kluster, only in its infancy, decided to put its main design service on hold, and use its crowd power to publish a daily newspaper from its new service, Knewsroom. More »
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NewsBreaker, Like a Group Wii Experience

12:00AM Seamus Byrne | We briefly mentioned MSNBC.com’s NewsBreaker Live Interactive Cinema game last week at our beloved bro site Kotaku, and now here’s video footage of that crowd gaming experience, where humans take the role of joysticks and collectively play a rousing game of Breakout. A motion sensor in front of the theater takes its cues from the movements of the crowd, and the result is the liveliest bunch of people waiting for a movie we’ve ever seen. Sure as hell beats watching an interminable cavalcade of cacophonous commercials after you’ve spent $30 on a couple of movie tickets and the usual mass quantities of popcorn. – Charlie White NewsBreaker (online version) [MSNBC.com] More »
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