“Anti-spying undergarments”
Do-It-Yourself infrared scanners that can see through clothing, and underwear designed to block it, possibly by “chilling your nether regions”? Is this really a problem, even in Japan?
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“Porton Down bio-terror tech re-used in odour-proof pants”
Here’s one that no SF author ever thought of: pants that prevent flatulence from smelling. In retrospect, it’s so obvious that you can’t help but wonder how anyone missed it. I expect I’ll get a year’s supply of these as a Christmas present from GoddessJ.
“Dutch boffins tout green petri-dish synthetic meat”
Another technology from lots of different science fiction stories, vat-grown synthi-meat has finally put in an appearance! Forget green eggs and ham. Here comes green ham and eggs! 😉
“DARPA to create brain-chipped cyborg moths”
This story, unlike the last one, is crap. Just my opinion, of course, but it’s too far beyond our current technology to have more than a very slim chance of making any progress without lots more basic research first. It smells like an attempt at the lucrative government defense pork barrel to me.
“Einstein researchers’ discover ‘radiation-eating’ fungi”
This is the kind of stuff that I love to find! Technologies that are currently found only in science fiction, such as interstellar travel, all rely on a number of unspoken assumptions… for instance, that the people traveling that way have some way of eating during the trip. (Even if they make the trip in …
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Speaking of Scientific Improbabilities…
…the flap over the recent film of a shadowy possibly-living-thing in Loch Ness is more interesting for what it says about people than the possible existence of the Loch Ness Monster. Like Bigfoot and captured aliens from Roswell, the Loch Ness Monster may actually exist — after all, scientists didn’t think that rogue waves really …
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The Roomba
Friday evening, I gave in to geek temptation (and a sale at Costco) and bought a Roomba. (That’s a robotic vacuum cleaner, for those who’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few years.) I set it up to charge last night, and let it loose in our living room this afternoon. I don’t …
“Roswell plans UFO theme park”…
…which just goes to show that you can turn anything mildly interesting into a cash cow. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to believe that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial intelligences in the recent past, and I like a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone. But the preponderance of evidence suggests that this …
The OS Wars, part IX: The Aftermath
History is written by the winners –George Orwell (maybe)
“Man described as a top spammer arrested”
Internet users rejoice: one of the world’s top spammers has been indicted! Only another ten billion to go. No, there aren’t ten billion spammers at present, despite the evidence of your in-box. From what I’ve heard, there are only about 200 large spam operations at any one time. But that makes little difference when, like …
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