Stephen Colbert Breaks Wrist On Set

The host of "The Colbert Report" revealed on Thursday night's show that he broke his left wrist while running around the New York studio before taping a recent episode.

TASER-armed robots keep police out of harm's way

June 3, 2007 Love them or hate them, TASER stun guns have become an essential and effective part of law enforcement armory. Perhaps their main drawback has been that even the long-range wireless shotgun-mounted TASER XREP puts a police officer within 30 feet of a potentially dangerous suspect before ...

B-2 Bomber with Massive Penetrator weapon

July 23, 2007 Just how important does someone have to be to have their own 30,000 pound bomb delivered by a billion dollar aircraft? We'll soon know. We have written about the Massive Penetrator weapon before here and detailed the awesome firepower and effectively infinite range of the US$1.157 billion ...

Clips: EXPLODING CONSOLES

It's late, it's the middle of the week, you're probably tired, definitely cranky. Best way to sooth your troubled mind is to kick back and watch some consoles EXPLODE. There's some kind of basketball-related theme behind it all, but it's just window-dressing: this is all 'bout the asplosions. Xbox? ...

Tired.

Here’s a chair you can sit in when you ‘re really “tired.” -via Bits and Pieces

Phony Soldier Charged With Making Up Claims of Atrocities in Iraq...

Lawmaker who voted to ban cell phones while driving -- rear-ends car while talking on cell phone...

Hasselhoff + Lightsaber = Starcrash.

Yes, that’s David Hasselhoff fighting a droid with a lightsaber, in a 1979 movie Starcrash. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Look At This …

Kites fly in jet stream to generate electricity

Mark Frauenfelder: The Economist has an interesting article about different proposals to harvest wind energy from the jet stream (elevation: 10km). A San Diego, CA company called Sky WindPower wants to send giant kite-turbines into the jet stream to generate power. Mr Shepard’s flying generator ...

Weird concept for condom package

Mark Frauenfelder: Wunderbaum says: I posted a (crappy cellphone) picture on my Livejournal of a quite disturbing Taiwanese product that I happened to find the other day: "Family Condom," with a very suggestive illustration that is wrong on several levels: A very loving family, almost suggesting how ...

Killer Lego sumo bots are back for more

Filed under: Robots Round 3 of the 2007 DivX Lego Sumo Robotic Championship is just as much a DivX sellout as ever, and the required browser plugin still isn't winning any friends, but despite those caveats, we're still glued to our screens for these exciting Lego bot deathmatches. With new bots like ...

Homebrew robots reach dime size

Filed under: RobotsWhile we're a bit skeptical of its claimed status to be "quite possibly the world's smallest robot," this so-called Pico bot is certainly impressive enough in its own right -- especially considering that it's the result of a DIY project. As you can see above, the bot is small enough ...

Coldest April Easter in 57 years in Minnesota...

K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider for sale

David Pescovitz: K.I.T.T., the tricked-out Trans Am that David Hasslehoff drove in Knight Rider, is for sale at Kassabian Motors in Dublin, California. Asking price is $149,995. Apparently, this is one of four "picture" or "hero" cars used in the show. From the Sydney Morning herald: Although it ...

Phony Craistlist ad invited people to burglarize house

Shortly after a homeowner evicted a tenant, an ad appeared in Craigslist inviting people to take whatever they want from the home. A couple days later, the house was stripped of everything, including light fixtures, windows, hot water heater and the kitchen sink.

WSJ: 'Pelosi may well have committed a felony in traveling to Damascus'...

Woman's House Robbed After Fake Craigslist Post

flanksteak writes "The Seattle Times is reporting that a woman in nearby Tacoma had her rental property stripped of almost everything after someone posted a fake Craigslist announcement that everything in the house could be hauled away no questions asked. When contacted, Craigslist said they would release ...

April 7, 1969: Birth of That Thing We Call the Internet

April 7 is often cited as a symbolic birth date of the net because the RFC memoranda contain research, proposals and methodologies applicable to internet technology. RFC documents provide a way for engineers and others to kick around new ideas in a public forum; sometimes, these ideas are adopted as ...

Wii Blaster coming soon!

With the announcement of Resident Evil 4 and Umbrella Chronicles for the Wii, coupled with the still unreleased Virtual Console titles Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley, it's time to start asking, "Where's the Wii Zapper?" Gamestop has listed the Wii Blaster for $20 and what we strongly believe to be a placeholder ...

4,000 flash mob dancers startle commuters...