News

Future Riot Shields Will Suffocate Protestors With Low Frequency Speakers

It’s not the first crowd control tool to use sound waves, but Raytheon’s patent for a new type of riot shield that produces low frequency sound waves to disrupt the respiratory tract and hinder breathing, sounds a little scary.


March 6, 2011
Software

Libya Protestors Using Photoshop To Make Caricatures Of Gaddafi

Photoshop! Great for airbrushing models in magazine! Also great to draw up hilarious caricatures of a crazy and troubled dictator! This is a wonderful picture of Anti-Gaddafi protestors using their photoshop skills to cartoonise Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. It was taken inside a burnt down state security building. [BoingBoing]


January 6, 2010
Cars

My Boat’s Got No Nose. How Does It Smell? That’s Irrelevant

Oh. Dear. The Ady Gil trimaran, used by the Sea Shepherd organisation to hunt down whalers, got itself an unexpected rhinoplasty yesterday, while buzzing around Japanese whaling vessel, the Shonan Maru, in the Antarctic waters of Commonwealth Bay.