A phenomenon called "evanescent coupling" could allow electronic gadgets to start charging themselves as soon as their owner walks into their home or office.

Researchers have been looking for a way to make a wireless charger for some time. One idea is to use electromagnetic induction – passing an electric current through a coil to create a magnetic field that induces a current in a neighbouring coil.

This is the way devices like electric toothbrushes are charged, and has been proposed as the basis of a universal recharger pad before (see One charger pad could power up all gadgets).

The snag as far as mobile devices are concerned is that the charger and device must be in close contact with each other for it to work. Alternative schemes - for instance, transmitting electromagnetic waves in all directions to reach any device in a room - would be hugely wasteful.

Great. Now all we need is the Mecha.

'Evanescent coupling' could power gadgets wirelessly - tech - 15 November 2006 - New Scientist Tech

Wow that's freaking trippy.

Boing Boing: Room looks like it's in a toon

Decius wrote:

The Daily Telegraph reports today that Iran is seeking to wield influence within Al-Qaeda to help name its number three individual in the Al-Qaeda organization. If accurate, the report states that Ahmadinejad is trying to persuade Al-Qaeda to promote a pro-Iranian activist (Saif Al-Adel) to a senior position within its leadership.

For the past three years, U.S. intelligence officials have said a shadowy group called the "al Quds force"-- the Jerusalem force -- part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard organization, may be sheltering some al Qaeda leaders, including its military commander, Saif Al-Adel, and Saad Bin Laden, son of the al Qaeda leader.

It is now reported that Iran is seeking Saif Al-Adel to fill the number three position of the Al-Qaeda organization. It is also reported that is believed that Osama Bin Laden health problems may be causing Iran's push to have Saif Al-Adel in that role to complement Zawahiri. According to reports from Western intelligence agencies, Iran is training senior Al-Qaeda operatives in Teheran to take over the organisation when bin Laden is no longer leader. For some time, military officials have claimed that Iran is providing Iraqi terrorists with arms.

Clearly Iran is supporting Iraqi Shia. Clearly Al'Q is supporting Iraqi Sunni... What does THIS mean?

CAN YOU DIG IT!!!!???

RE: Counterterrorism Blog: Iran forging alliance with Al-Qaeda?

Rattle wrote:

Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. It is equipped with two cameras with zooming capabilities one for day time and one for infrared night vision. It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun.

Yet another milestone on the path toward robots that hunt, kill, and eat people, and use their flesh to generate electric power.

The future is about as bright as a muzzle flash.

The commercial is great. It makes me sure that kim jong il will have super ninja steal this weapon and CHUCK NORRIS and his Karate Kommando's will have to go get it back.

RE: Samsung develops machine gun sentry robot costs $200k - Newlaunches.com

Spychotic (spy-kot-ik) : Characterized or afflicted with irrational, malicious, intrusive behavior.

See also : Homeland Security.

Please use as opportunity arises.

woofus wrote:
I expect Nanochick to pick me up on her way to this. We know how to cheat at this game. It has a prize of $10,000 Canadian. I am going to ask for mine in all dimes. What does that covert to in dollars, like $20.00 or something I think.

Yes....we are going to this damnit:) And they say cheaters never prosper...

RE: Hundreds to compete for rock, paper, scissors title.

Gymnast springs a leak

Gymnast springs a leak - Message Board - ezboard.com

Photographs of what reporters claim was Michael Jackson wearing high heels, skinny jeans and a floppy woman’s sun hat were published yesterday. He was out with his 8 year-old daughter, Paris, who was dressed almost identically.

Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Michael Jackson dressed as a transvestite in St. Tropez

A hurricane-like storm, two-thirds the diameter of Earth, is raging at Saturn's south pole, new images from Nasa's Cassini space probe reveal.

Measuring 5,000 miles (8,000km) across, the storm is the first hurricane ever detected on a planet other than Earth.

Scientists say the storm has the eye and eye-wall clouds characteristic of a hurricane and its winds are swirling clockwise at 350mph (550km/h).

However, unlike Earth hurricanes it seems stuck at the pole, not drifting.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Huge 'hurricane' rages on Saturn

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced a bill in the House of Representatives late last year that would ban weapons in space. But while there have been many similar legislative initiatives in the past, Rep. Kucinich's bill is distinguished by its unusually expansive definition of "weapons."

Among the weapons that it would proscribe the new measure includes "psychotronic" devices that are "directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of ... mood management, or mind control."

Well.. Ok then..

This is old, but when something like this comes across your radar, you must pass it on..

Dennis Kucinich introduced bill to ban orbital mind control lasers