This looks downright dangerous! Lockheed Martin developed the Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) to hover and kill. It was put to the test on December 2nd at Edwards Air Force Base. During an engagement with the enemy, the MKV-L with its cargo of kill vehicles will maneuver into the threat complex to intercept all lethal targets, […]
Back in 1955, a Sears store had an advertisement listing Santa Claus’ phone number, prompting children to call and speak with the generous old man. Naturally, thousands of children tried to call. What they didn’t know is that the number had been misprinted, and was actually the emergency number for CONAD, NORAD‘s ancestor. The man […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Two days ago, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report that details the (apparently shocking) phenomenon that about half of American adults play videogames (53%, to be exact). Sounds about right to me, though I just skimmed through a good dozen articles from all over the […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] The comic book series Fables, created by Bill Willingham and published by DC’s Vertigo imprint (the same as Sandman and V for Vendetta among others), is being turned into an hour-long television drama for ABC. The comics are about fairy tale characters who live in exile in modern-day New […]
In the following video, astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize winner George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos — with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids — got built this way.
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you’ve been on the Internet for any time at all, you might remember something called “The Venice Project.” Essentially, the founders of Kazaa and Skype tried to come up with a way to bring television to the Internet in a peer-to-peer network that meshed with what the content providers […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] In a bit of a surprising (yet not so surprising) move, Apple may be releasing a more economical iPhone for sale in Walmarts around the country. This rumor comes from Kaufman Brothers, a technology market analyst group that believes a cheaper, lighter iPhone is “inevitable.” The specifics are, of course, […]
Ok, maybe you’ve seen this one somewhere on the Web, or maybe not, but we’re posting it anyways, just in case you missed it. [Via Holy Taco]
IBM has just released a ridiculous video listing five innovations it thinks will be commonplace by 2013. I don’t know about you, but this clip makes me think of one of those old mid 1960 documentary that tried to predict how technology would be at the end of the 20th century. Unveiled today, the third […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] A new study (PDF) in the Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that – gasp! – talking on a cell phone while driving might actually be dangerous. Sure, the conclusion is kind of a no-brainer, but the heart of the experiment was to figure out if there’s any difference between […]