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Daft Punk Swordfighting

The Tech Inside Olympic Fencers' Amazing Future-Warrior LED Helmets

Continuing in its tradition of offering up exactly what we want, Boston.com's Big Picture blog has a ton of fantastic shots from the fencing action this week in Beijing, with the duelers' silvery lamé space suits and crazy blinking helmets on full display. I want one to wear, whether I'm making toast (flying crumb protection) or sequencing dance beats in a giant pyramid (extra rock action). But why all the fancy lights? More »

2:45 PM on Fri Aug 15 2008
By John Mahoney
22,039 views, 56 comments

Latest by n/a: The new masks are nice in that the allow people watching on TV to see the scoring. Right of way more »

swordfighting

PS2 Gets 1:1 Swordfighting Game Using EyeToy

It looks like the PS2 is going to beat the Wii MotionPlus to market in delivering one-to-one swordfighting. It's using the EyeToy—the camera peripheral released in 2003—to map your motions with a toy sword onto actions taking place on the screen. You'll get "first person gameplay" where "you are the hero of the game," and from the cartoony screenshots, it doesn't seem too bad. Hmmmm. One-to-one swordfighting might be used pretty well in another industry, if you know what I mean. [Dark Zero via Kotaku]

3:20 PM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Jason Chen
2,331 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: @Kamalot: I csn imagine your house, one idiot waving his arms about in his living room at different times of more »

robots

Combat Robot Attempts Rebellion Against Human Masters in Iraq, Army Pulls Plug for 10-20 Years

The army's machine-gun wielding, insurgent-slaying robot SWORDS is no longer spraying foes with hot doom in Iraq. Actually, it never got the chance to notch a single frag, and never will. Apparently, there was an incident where "the gun started moving when it was not intended to move," meaning it totally pointed somewhere it wasn't supposed to—like at friendlies, which resulted in recall from the field and might've set the program back 10-20 years, according to the Army's Program Executive Officer for Ground Forces, Kevin Fahey. More »

8:30 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By matt buchanan
138,332 views, 102 comments

Latest by mattnyc99: Popular Mechanics official response: [www.popularmechanics.com] more »

steel

Samurai Sword Maker Holds The Key To Nuclear Reactors

In testament to old world craftsmanship, Japan Steel Works is both a samurai sword maker and the only company in the world that's good enough with steel to produce the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in one piece, an engineering necessity in order to reduce the risk of radioactive leaks. The company spends so much time and resources on each containment vessel that they can only produce four per year, flaunting a price tag starting with a $100 million down payment. [bloomberg via slashdot] [image]

9:59 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Mark Wilson
11,956 views, 46 comments

Latest by Scaramanga: @Bambini: Actually, you are the one that needs to do your homework. There are quite a few companies that make reactor vessels. more »

nintendo

10 Insane Wii Weapons

Laser beams, battle axes, shotguns and more, no weapon is too crazy for CTA Digital's Wii accessories. Check out the gallery to see them all.
Thanks to Wilson for the awesome pics!

5:50 PM on Tue Jan 8 2008
By Benny Goldman
78,777 views, 20 comments

warfare

First Fully-Armed Robots Patrolling in Iraq; First Shots Imminent

There have been robots patrolling the sunny sands of Iraq since the initial invasion, but until now, they've merely been there to scope stuff out. That was then, this is now. According to Noah over at the always-awesome Danger Room blog, the military has just deployed their new "special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system" (SWORDS) that has been in development for the past few years. What are the SWORDS, exactly? Oh, just some bomb-disposal robots armed with M249 machine guns. Holy shit, robots with machine guns.

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3:15 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By Adam Frucci
91,325 views, 74 comments

Latest by n/a: further proof that the science fiction age has finally arrived. Now where is my flying car? more »

i'll take swords for $400

PlayStation 3 Violence Continues Katana-Style

It's been a month since our last entry in PlayStation 3 Melee Watch, but this most recent instance involves Katanas. Apparently, some home invasionist came knocking on a door in search of a PlayStation 3 (Blu-ray fanatic?), but met with Damien Fernandez and his Katana. More »

3:30 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Jason Chen
3,463 views, 49 comments

Latest by ANoel: @nutbastard I appreciate your comments, but you're in a civil war, dude. Not between non-whites and whites,of course, um, well, between more »

robots

Wiimote Controlled Murder Robot

These crazy dudes turned a KR16 industrial arm robot into an Wiimote extension and started smashing crap. Even with the delay, they managed to hit tennis balls pretty nicely by compensating. More »

5:45 PM on Thu Jan 25 2007
By Jason Chen
4,778 views, 17 comments