Fathers day is coming up

Good news that $500 hunk of crap on your dash will not stop working anytime soon

Air Force Twitters on GPS Outage Reports: Calm Down, Civilians

The issue is under control. We are working hard to get out the word. The issue is not whether GPS will stop working. There's only a small risk we will not continue to exceed our performance standard. Agree w/ GAO thr's a potential risk, but GPS isn't falling out of the sky—we have plans 2 mitigate risk & prevent a gap.

Oh boy I am 3 for 5

Five Amazing ’80’s Geek Toys and Their Modern Equivalents

The 100 in 1 electric kit, the pre computer and endless erector sets. My pre computer was not exactly like that one though.

1,474-Megapixel Photo from President Obama’s Inaugural Address

How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address

That is an amazing picture that you can zoom into to see which Senators are sleeping.

So if you want to ruin someones life

High Schoolers Accused Of Sending Naked Pictures To Each Other

Three teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or semi-nude cell phone pictures of themselves, and three male classmates in a Greensburg Salem High School who received them, are charged with child pornography.

So if you received the picture you are pretty much screwed even if they didn't go looking for it. Shit I hope some teen doesn't send it to a number by accident your life would be over.

A Jedi's strength flows from the Force

Toy trains 'Star Wars' fans to use The Force

Could The Force be with you? A toy due in stores this fall will let you test and hone your Jedi-like abilities.

The Force Trainer (expected to be priced at $90 to $100) comes with a headset that uses brain waves to allow players to manipulate a sphere within a clear 10-inch-tall training tower, analogous to Yoda and Luke Skywalker's abilities in the Star Wars films.

In the Force Trainer, a wireless headset reads your brain activity, in a simplified version of EEG medical tests, and the circuitry translates it to physical action. If you focus well enough, the training sphere, which looks like a ping-pong ball, will rise in the tower.

A state of deep concentration is needed to achieve a Force-full effect. "When you concentrate, it activates the training remote," says Frank Adler of toymaker Uncle Milton Industries, which is creating the Trainer. "There is a flow of air that will move the (ball). You can actually feel like you are in a zone."

iPhone wireless charging?

Powermat Wireless Charging System

Not really sure how this mat works but to charge all your doodads by just laying them on it at night would certainly be interesting.

If you had to be in a wheel chair this is it

The Tank Chair

Tank Chair is a Custom off-road wheelchair that can go anywhere outdoors. Conquers Streams, Mud, Snow, Sand, and Gravel, allowing you to get back to nature, and can also climb up and down stairs.

Ran across this item from the 2008 CES when searching for pics from the 2009 CES. Wonder if Medicare would cover that?

Winning the info war 101

IDF Spokesperson's Unit on YouTube




I wonder how the MSM reported on the pile of bodies afterward. Probably something along the lines of Gaza picnic ruined by IDF.

Lumenok lighted arrow nock

The downside to hunting with my crossbow is I almost never recover the bolt and the one I did find was sunk to the nock in the dirt. I think I will pick up a 3 pack of these for next year.

From Wired: Oil Is Not the Climate Change Culprit — It's All About Coal

Oil Is Not the Climate Change Culprit — It's All About Coal

Well that doesn't sound good for coal or does it. Read all the way down to the bottom of the article and you find this gem:

The real global warming culprit — as James Hansen and his colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies have long argued — is burning coal to generate electricity.

"Oil and gas by themselves don't have enough carbon to keep us in the dangerous zone [of global warming] for very long," said Pushker Kharecha, a scientist and colleague of Hansen at NASA GISS.

While both Kharecha and Caldeira stopped short of saying that the world's oil usage didn't matter, Caldeira seemed to capture their joint sentiment when he called the combustion of oil a "second-order effect."

Liquid fuels are so relatively insignificant that no matter what, nothing we put in our cars is likely to change the basic story of climate change. Even if oil ran out tomorrow and humans began converting coal in its solid form to a liquid you could put in a car — a worst-case scenario for environmentalists — the global warming contribution of that fuel is almost negligible.

Negligible.

Greek rioters use lasers against police

Greek rioters use lasers against police as violence over boy's death continues into second week

Certainly very dangerous for the officers as they are using the high powered green lasers that could do serious eye damage. On the bright side the beam provides a target for a CS grenade or rubber bullets which both seem warranted.

Just because your paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you

Maybe the Iranians are not as paranoid as we thought?

The Palm Pistol hangun for the disabled

Medicare to Cover Prescription Handguns?

We recently reported about a new 9mm handgun that was designed for folks suffering from arthritis and other disabilities affecting the hands. Constitution Arms, the manufacturer of the firearm, is reporting that the FDA has formally designated the gun as a medical gadget.

The Palm Pistol

Prescription only?

h/t instapundit

Twitter to save the GOP?

Last night I got a chance to look over the article at Hot Air; Has the remaking of conservative infrastructure begun?

Down in the comments I found one that stated almost perfectly what I thought of the idea.

Posted by ErikTheRed

I didn't have a Twitter account but I signed up and downloaded the app for my iPhone. maybe later after I get some sleep I will check it out further. Technology could be a friend to the GOP but message has got to be there first. Going to be hard to get back on message of small government after the last 8 years.

Patients as popsicle

I once packed a patient who had suffered an acute MI (heart attack) and was on the vent into a body bag with ice leaving only the head sticking out. The cardio thoracic surgeon at another facility wanted him packaged and shipped that way via EMS. You should have seen the look on the medics face when he saw the "package".

Now from the AP:

It took five shocks to get Cynthia Crawford's heart to start beating again after she collapsed at Ochsner Clinic a few weeks ago. A dramatic rescue, to be sure, yet it was routine care that she could have had at any hospital.

What came next, though, was not.

As she lay unconscious, doctors placed her in an inflatable cocoon-like pool that sprayed her naked body with hundreds of icy-cold jets of water, plunging her into hypothermia.

"Like jumping in the North Sea," said the cardiologist leading her care, Dr. Paul McMullan.

Days later, Crawford was recovering without the long-term harm she might have suffered.

The rest Study will examine whether frigid water can slow tissue death from heart attack

Product website: Life Recovery Systems

Pills with Bluetooth?

Edible Electronics Monitor Drugs in Your Body

A biomedical company has created a system to embed tiny computers and sensors into drugs and link them to a cellphone or the internet in a bid to make the monitoring of drug efficacy foolproof.

Proteus' product consists of two parts: an ingestible sensor chip and an external band-aid-like patch. The chips are just 1mm square and 200 microns thick and are attached to pills with a bio-compatible glue. When swallowed the chips send a signal to the patch. The patch has accelerometers and amplifiers to track heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and body angle to determine if the patient is lying down or standing up.

That information is transmitted via Bluetooth to an online repository and can show how the body is responding to the drug, says Savage.

Well so long as its a 1 time use pill that is fine but I'm not gonna dig for it.

Like you need more reasons to not be a teacher

How Spyware Nearly Sent a Teacher to Prison (PC World)

If there's a poster child for the dangers of spyware, it's Julie Amero.

The 41-year-old former substitute teacher was convicted of four felony counts of endangering minors last year, stemming from an Oct. 19, 2004, classroom incident where students were exposed to inappropriate images.

Prosecutors had argued that Amero put her students at risk by exposing them to pornography and failing to shield them from the pop-up images after they appeared on her classroom computer.

Amero was an unlikely porn surfer. Four months pregnant at the time, she said she had only just learned to use e-mail. She says she was well-liked by teachers and students at Kelly Middle School in Norwich, Connecticut, where the incident occurred. "I was the cool teacher everybody liked," she remembers.

Amero said she did everything she could to protect her kids, but school officials, reacting to angry calls from parents, went to the police, who soon pressed criminal charges.

The case ruined her life. She believes that stress from the arrest caused her to miscarry her baby, and her career as a teacher is finished. A heart condition landed her in the hospital after she fainted several times. And while she was briefly employed at an area Home Depot last year, she was fired from the job shortly after an employee posted news clippings about her trial in the employee lounge.

Her conviction in January 2007 was the low point of her life, but soon after that Amero found a champion in Alex Eckelberry, the CEO of Sunbelt Software, who contacted her after hearing about her case. After looking at the evidence, he and other security professionals concluded that Amero had been wrongly convicted. Within months they had mustered a high-powered team of lawyers and security experts who ultimately got the guilty verdict overturned, setting the stage for a retrial.

She calls Eckelberry her "shining star" and keeps a picture of him on her wall

Amero reached a plea bargain agreement with prosecutors late last week. She pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge, paid a US$100 fine and had her state teaching license revoked. Now, she says, she wants some peace, but she's still clearly upset with local prosecutors, whom she says pursued an "incompetent and malicious" case against her.

She should sue the school board for not protecting her from the pop ups. Obviously there was a failure on the tech end.

Active Protection System for the Army's Future Combat System takes down an RPG in flight.

Pennsylvania National Guard unit deploys with 'Flying Beer Keg'

Nat'l Guard Gets Spying, 'Flying Beer Keg' for Iraq

A Pennsylvania National Guard unit will get a new toy before it deploys to Iraq in January -- an odd-looking robotic aircraft, sometimes referred to as "the flying beer keg."

Designed by Honeywell, the gasoline-powered Micro Air Vehicle, or gMAV, is designed to be a "hover and stare" drone that can loiter over urban canyons, providing surveillance for small units on the ground. The recon keg uses ducted-fan technology to float through the sky. Designers have also added a gimbal-mounted sensor so the gMAV's remote video camera can scan the scene without rotating in mid-air.

Reminds me of the Cypher from Metal Gear Solid video games.