Jan 19 2007 Sapphire knife has no metal
If you ever find yourself needing to sneak a knife pass a metal detector, this is a knife that has no metal parts. The handle is made from bone and the blade is made from an artificial sapphire that can only be sharpened with special diamond whetstone. I don't understand why anybody would need this, but hey, the more ways to stab people the better. That's what I always says.
Jan 19 2007 Elio Linea reinvents the watch
Elio Linea is a watch that shows time based on your position in a predetermined period of time. So instead of saying it's noon, it'll say you've got about 2/3 left until you hit noon. It's basically a progress bar for how much time you have left until a designated appointment. The watch itself looks beautiful, it's just unfortunate that it's so very pointless. Sort of like this hat I bought for my microwave. Sigh, what was I thinking?
Jan 19 2007 3D morphable model face animation
They can do this but they still can't make a proper robot sex slave? Damn you, technology! Why do you tease me?
Jan 18 2007 Clippy phone sex
He's not the only one who's into Clippy. Mmm, Boner City here we come. NSFW language.
Jan 17 2007 Girl in human sling shot
I'm telling you now this looks like the funnest thing in the universe. If you offered me sex with Jessica Alba or this I'd already have pushed down and trampled Jessica trying to strap myself in.
Jan 17 2007 World of Warcraft gamer already hits level 70
Just 28 hours after the release of The Burning Crusade, a 24-year-old French World of Warcraft player has already reached level 70. Something Blizzard was expecting the average gamer to take about a year to do. I'm not gonna judge the guy since I play myself, but Jesus, man. I mean, really. Jesus. Man.
Jan 16 2007 Magic Mirror LCD TV is worst mirror ever
Konka's Magic Mirror LCD TV is a TV that includes a camera so when not used as a display it can "reflect" whatever is in front of it. I'm not entirely sure how that's better than an actual mirror or what makes it "magic," but at least they had the good sense to cover it in leapord spots. Otherwise people might not take it seriously.
Jan 16 2007 The Wii Sports Experiment
This guy did 6-weeks of changing nothing in his life except adding 30 minutes of Wii Sports into his routine and seeing how it'd affect his overall fitness. Surprising (or not depending on how you feel about video games) he actually lost weight, and his overall fitness increased. Take a look at all his results here. I tried a similar experiment, except instead of playing Wii Sports I hate a 30lb steak dinner every night. My results weren't as impressive, although I can no longer see my feet. So that's pretty neat.
Jan 15 2007 Inventor of bear suit makes real life Halo suit
The inventer of a bear-protection suit has created a much slimmer version which has been designed to stave off bullets, explosives, knives, and clubs. The suit is called Trojan and the inventer describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour" and he hopes to get it deployed for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and US soldiers in Iraq. The suit has stood up to an elephant gun, and is made from high-impact plastic lined with ceramic bullet protection over ballistic foam. Included in the suit are compartments for emergency morphine and salt, a knife and emergency light. Built into the forearms are a small recording device, a pepper-spray gun and a detachable transponder that can be swallowed in case of trouble. The whole suit comes in at 18 kilograms and overs everything but the fingertips and the major joints, and could allegedly be mass-produced for about $2,000. Plus, if you saw an army of these things coming at you you wouldn't even fight. You'd just give up and pray the space robots haven't come to anally probe you.
Jan 15 2007 MPAA caught uploading fake torrents
If you like to illegally (or legally) download movies off BitTorrent, watch out because the MPAA is uploading fake trackers so they can log IP addresses and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs. There's a whole list of things to watch out for, but basically all the fake torrents are spread out on servers located in Southern California and Las Vegas. I'm not about to say downloading movies is okay, but I am going to say that whenever I hear about the MPAA trying to crack down it just makes me want to steal from them. If the MPAA and RIAA got into the same room together it would be a collective of evil so powerful even the ghost of Hitler would be scared.
