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Bad Ways to Go

Wind Turbines Murdering Bats By Popping Their Lungs

On the list of ways to go, having your lungs explode is definitely on the gnarlier side. Too bad for bats in treehugging locales, though, because that's what's happening to them, due to a pretty serious error with their awesome echolcation systems crossing with the seemingly benign forces of Bernoulli's principle put into motion by the turbines' huge spinning blades. Ouch all around. More »

7:00 PM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By John Mahoney
19,383 views, 84 comments

Latest by m0unds: @DJTripleRRR: click the photo credit link. the little dude's still kicking..or he was when he was "evicted" from that person's more »

diy

Ultrasonic Batgoggles Turn You Into Steampunk Batman

Giz reader and Batman-wannabe Suneth Attygalle has built these cool, albeit a bit goofy looking, ultrasonic batgoggles. As you can see in the video, they allow the wearer to detect the proximity of objects using just $60 in components, including welding goggles, a microcontroller and ultrasonic sensors. More »

6:53 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Jesus Diaz
8,420 views, 47 comments

Latest by redfood: I agee - looks more like the Nite Owl from the Watchmen ... or Arthur from the tick. more »

cia spytech

CIA Animal Tech: Bats, Cats and Rats As Covert Operatives

I was surprised to learn that the CIA has had a long though not always fruitful relationship with the animal kingdom. In Spycraft, the authors describe many clever animal-assisted devices, from the dead-rat dead-drop pouch to the "acoustic kitty," a cat with a remote listening system embedded in its body. And what's this about the 1 million bats the CIA's precursor, the OSS, were gonna use to firebomb Tokyo during WWII? More »

2:20 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Wilson Rothman
10,787 views, 35 comments

Latest by StarChaser Tyger: There was a show on one of the science channels about the bat bomb... it would have worked, and they more »

military

Army's Miniature Spy-Bat Concept Makes Lucius Fox Drool

Army dudes sat down with scientists at University of Michigan and other schools and asked for a simple frickin' bionic bat with frickin' stereo cameras, miniaturized radar, ultra-sensitive self-guidance, "energy scavenging" recharging capability and a radio to send data back to troops in urban combat zones. Was that too much to ask? Here's how it's working out for them: More »

10:10 AM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Wilson Rothman
39,909 views, 49 comments

Latest by guyin916: looks like something from star trek. more »