This week, engineer Adam Wilson made global headlines by updating Twitter using his brainwaves. “USING EEG TO SEND TWEET” he explained.

Wilson’s achievement was actually pretty trivial. He used a system called BCI2000, found in hundreds of laboratories across the globe, that can do the job of a keyboard for any software program. But it was significant precisely because it was trivial: mind-reading tech is going to have a massive impact this year.

In the coming months, cheap headsets that let you control technology with the electrical signals generated by your firing neurons will go on sale to the general public
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South Africans take a slightly more hard line approach to self defense than some other nations, and when it comes to protecting your car, no measure is too extreme, even if that measure is so fucking insane that you stare in wide-eyed shocked silence, shaking your head slowly in disbelief. But if life has taught us nothing else, it’s that shit that’s totally insane is often effective. Or at least awesome to watch.

That brings us to the Blaster, a device that shoots jets of liquid fuel from under the doors and ignites them via a spark with the soul purpose of burning the shit out of whoever is trying to jack your Miata. Yes, the Blaster is a flamethrower for your car.

The fuel is stored in the trunk and fed through hoses to nozzles under the door. Should jacking occur, one merely has to press a button to send the potential carjacker running around screaming “Holy shit I’m on fire!” For added kicks, the system fires on both sides regardless of what side an attack is coming from, discouraging looky-loos from standing too close when a carjacking happens.

The inventor assures the world it’s actually nonlethal as no one is going to stand there long enough to get roasted to death. On the other hand, he’s confident the attacker will be blinded for the rest of his life, and didn’t mention how it reacts to various flammable fabrics but, come on, who has time for that shit. That’s what they get for trying to carjack you.he Blaster Car-Mounted Flamethrower

South Africans take a slightly more hard line approach to self defense than some other nations, and when it comes to protecting your car, no measure is too extreme, even if that measure is so fucking insane that you stare in wide-eyed shocked silence, shaking your head slowly in disbelief. But if life has taught us nothing else, it’s that shit that’s totally insane is often effective. Or at least awesome to watch.

That brings us to the Blaster, a device that shoots jets of liquid fuel from under the doors and ignites them via a spark with the soul purpose of burning the shit out of whoever is trying to jack your Miata. Yes, the Blaster is a flamethrower for your car.

The fuel is stored in the trunk and fed through hoses to nozzles under the door. Should jacking occur, one merely has to press a button to send the potential carjacker running around screaming “Holy shit I’m on fire!” For added kicks, the system fires on both sides regardless of what side an attack is coming from, discouraging looky-loos from standing too close when a carjacking happens.

The inventor assures the world it’s actually nonlethal as no one is going to stand there long enough to get roasted to death. On the other hand, he’s confident the attacker will be blinded for the rest of his life, and didn’t mention how it reacts to various flammable fabrics but, come on, who has time for that crap. That’s what they get for trying to carjack you.

Susan Boyle – Britains Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 – Saturday 11th April

Ever Heard Of A real Four-Eared Cat? [Pic]

Yesterday researchers at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver announced that they’d created a tiny battery (pictured) that could draw power from human blood. They’re basically cyborg batteries, half biological and half technological.


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Molten Iron Throwing

Remember when those two satellites collided the other day? Seems that they’ll be the gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper all future space launches.

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