The ghost in your machine
Your phone as a ghost-finding device Cool… creepy. Ghostwire is an augmented reality game for for Nokia N-Gage phones. The game superimposes ghostly phenomena over your real world camera view. I...
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What gaming will do to you
Photo: CC/Ricco Torres It won’t cause hair to grow on your palms, but playing by yourself might have it downsides. Here’s a description of one case, that of a girl who refused to stop playing, even...
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Taser: Axon device "protects truth" (and "covers ass")
Update: My favorite feature on the Axon: its “Privacy Mode” switch, which automatically suspends recording during an arrest. Because dashboard cameras catch only a part of the beat-down action, cops...
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Guns getting so smart, they won't work
Photo: CC/Josh McKible I can easily envision guns that not only recognize their owners, but can also (through their sweat, pulse, or some other means) determine their intentions. Imagine: A gun that...
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Protect the head
A new videogame for the iPhone overrides instinctive compassion. Photo: CC/sean dreilinger A small sign of our psychopathic, degenerate, times: An iPhone app that promotes shaking babies to death, to...
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Twit tweet of the day: Raise taxes to pay bus drivers
This, I'd pay extra for. Photo: CC/Joe Philipson A Harvard Law blogger pats herself on the back, for Tweeting the fuzz about a jackass bus driver, who was texting-while-driving: I tweeted as follows:...
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Now it's barcodes that can be read at a distance
Radio frequency identification tags are not fully catching on, thanks to objections from Alan Watt, Katherine Albrecht, and others who have been hammering away for years at RFID’s threats to privacy...
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Infodemiology: Public health at the "granular" level
Photo: Mike Burns. Flickr/CC Epidemiology used to rely on aggregated data, reports gathered from public health clinics and hospitals, VA hospitals and military bases. But with individuals so eagerly...
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Tricorders for cops: NIJ wants 'em
Photo: Mike Seyfang/Flickr CC Think Sipowicz with a hi-tech scanner. The National Institute of Justice is seeking proposals for a device that can immediately scan crime scenes — bodies, suspects, CCTV...
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Google to reroute cyclists through cities
Lost. Photo: Ollie Crafoord/Flickr CC Even cyclists, many of whom see themselves as the Apache of their city’s roadways, will soon be taking orders from Google. A blogger at MIT’s Center for Future...
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