israel

Phones

Rumour: Modu To “Soft Launch” This Wednesday

6:30AM Jack Loftus | The zany modular phone platform known as Modu is allegedly set for a Wednesday launch with a price tag starting around $US130. More »
Robots

Exploding Surveillance Snake Robot Is Unsettling At Best

12:00AM Adam Frucci | Nothing beats combining your fears into one, absolutely terrifying object. This is a robotic snake that, when necessary, can blow itself up. Yes, a suicide-bombing robosnake. More »
Weapons

Israel Has Nukes, US Army Confirms

4:38PM Jesus Diaz | Good news people! The US army has confirmed that Israel has their very own circumcised version of Dr Manhattan’s schlong. Sources estimate a collection of 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. More »
Design

Mindblowing Buildings In the Sky May Solve Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

12:20AM Jesus Diaz | Architecture student Viktor Ramos has a brilliant idea that may be the key to the Israel-Palestinian Gordian Knot: Instead of building grim walls or tunnels, create livable bridges so two states can live together, superposed. More »
GPS

Mio Creates ‘Kosher’ GPS Unit, For The Most Orthodox of Geeks

9:05PM John Herrman | And it is certain that if ever you turn away from the Lord your Mio, and go after the Garmin, I bear witness to you today that destruction will overtake you. —Deuteronomy 8:19(ish) More »
Online

Israeli Army Videoblogs Blowing Up Gaza, Gets Censored By YouTube

9:20AM John Mahoney | This is the Israeli Defence Force’s official YouTube channel, where they are posting several gun camera videos per day of bombs falling on Gaza. That is, until Google temporarily shut it down. More »
Online

Barack Obama Cloned By Israeli Candidate Website

6:30AM Mark Wilson | On the left, you see President Elect Barack Obama’s website. On the right, that’s not just Obama’s site localised in Hebrew…well, maybe it sort of is. It’s the campaign site of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (who is running for Prime Minister of Israel). Everything has been copied, from the colours to the donation areas to the integration of social networking platforms. And no one is denying that fact, either. More »
Weapons

Israel Deploys Crowd Control Skunk Bomb for the First Time

8:00AM Jack Loftus | It’s a good day for non-lethal crowd control methods, but a bad day for their intended targets, as the Israeli Army has used the Skunk Bomb for the first time against Palestinian protesters in Naalin. The “bomb” is dispensed via a hose system, and the liquid is supposedly hard to wash off, even after repeated showers. It’s also known to have created a clothespin shortage or two. Nyuk, nyuk.