brainpuppy
@play with ideas and technology
Microwaves Ruin Everything, Video of Items Exploding in a Microwave
Microwaves Ruin Everything, Video of Items Exploding in a Microwave
Sounds like Chattanooga is starting a challenge. Any other cities think they can beat them to it?!? Triple dog dare you.
via Military technology: Magic bullets | The EconomistThe XM25, as the new gun is known, weighs about 6kg (13lb) and fires a 25mm round. The trick is that instead of having to be aimed directly at the target, this round need only be aimed at a place in proximity to it. Once there, it explodes—just like Shrapnel’s original artillery shells—and the fragments kill the enemy. It knows when to explode because of a timed fuse. In Shrapnel’s shells this fuse was made of gunpowder. In the XM25 it is a small computer inside the bullet that monitors details of the projectile’s flight.With a computer in each rifle, and even one in each bullet a whole spectrum of technical possibilities emerge. Now we are definitely not talking about dumdums anymore… Rather the opposite.
(via emergentfutures)
What you talkin’ bout Mondays?
I saw this on a creative team’s office door at Saatchi & Saatchi….I think about it often. primarily on Monday. I went looking for it on the internets, but couldn’t find. So, I recreated…i’m sure the original was tighter…
Yahoo’s Renovator in Chief
Scott Thompson, PayPal’s president, will try to revamp Yahoo, the struggling online media company. He succeeds Carol Bartz, who was dismissed in September.
“There’s a real opportunity for him at Yahoo, if they can take all this [user] data and use it for advertisers.”
Meh.
Physicists Anxiously Await New Data on ‘God Particle’
Scientists are set to issue a progress report on Tuesday morning on the search for the Higgs boson, which would vindicate the modern theory of how elementary particles get mass.
