Zoltan Balogh’s powerful image of the Sziget Festival in Budapest

‘Mr. Tetanus, a performance artist, wears a self-made 10mm spike through his ankle, behind the Achilles tendon, and has had it now for about twelve years. In the picture you can see it now, as well as a photo looking through the hole and showing the displacement of the tendon. He doesn’t take it out […]

This thing is queerly affordable as home ‘defense’ and Danger Room’s Sharon Weinberger says it’s “the most unbearable, gut-wrenching noise I’ve ever heard in my life.”
The guinea pig she’d much prefer getting hit again by the pain ray than this.

It’s a bit frightening seeing these invisible, dehabilitating force emmiters out of the devlopment stage and […]

I don’t condone this at all, but it’s an amazing photo and a great springboard for a character someday.

Pieter Hugo won first prize in the single portrait category in 2006 for this photo of Malla Gahadima Ahamadu with the hyena Jamis, Abuja, Nigeria.

Nothing insightful or interesting to say about it.  I just love it.

‘If you’ve ever considered getting a tattoo, it’s probably for aesthetic purposes. That’s all well and good, but in the near future getting a tattoo might be the best way to deliver vaccines, so if you go in for a new ink job you could also protect yourself from any number of diseases, including some […]

Talking CCTV cameras started popping up on newsites a few months back, and one was installed more recently (and mocked because, hey, some guy a mile away is telling you off through a camera.  It just asks for mocking.) but now they’re really being rolled out.

‘The disembodied voices of authority offering advice and warnings that […]

We all knew about anti-tank dogs, but there’s so much more.

I’m torn between the killer dolphins and exploding bats, myself.
I read about the dolphins a while back.  When they were trained and finally put into the ocean, they all buggered off.  Gotta love an animal that’s about as smart as you.

 
‘A new patent, issued on Friday, covers a system that would scan some, or all, of your skeleton and compare it with a database of skeletons. The database would also pull up data such as your name, address, social security number, and passport number. Worst of all, you might not even know your skeleton is […]