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February 20th 2009

Woman’s Hair Weave May Have Stopped Bullet

Say what? A Kansas City woman with a tight weave gets shot at by her boyfriend through a car window. Later, the cops find a spent bullet in her hair. Did the hair stop it? Apparently some weaves are tighter than others. (Apparently, some relationships are tighter than others too.) After 20-year-old Briana Bonds told…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 20

December 12th 2008

Fingerprinting a Bullet the Bond Way

Well, the John Bond way that is. Bond, the head of forensics at the Northamptonshire Police in the UK, has devised a way to fingerprint bullets with electricity. He discovered that the extreme heat that occurs when firing a gun causes salt from a fingerprint to slightly corrode the casing. By zapping it with electricity…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 12

June 23rd 2008

Could You Shoot Bendy Bullets, Just Like in “Wanted”?

You may have thought that the all-seeing, future-predicting loom of life was the craziest thing about Wanted. As it turns out, however, Mark Millar and J.G. Jones’s graphic-novel-turned-film has even more implausible scenarios to feed your fantasies. For example, there’s the way Wesley (James McAvoy) can “bend” the trajectory of a bullet shot from his…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Jun 23

April 2nd 2008

Defender Hoodie: Look Good, Avoid Bullets

Knife-proof, machine-washable T-shirt not enough protection for you out there on the mean streets? Bulletproof backpack insert just won’t cover enough of your nice, lead-free body? Maybe you need a hoodie with 2mm of Type IIA bulletproofing, enough to stop a 9mm full-metal-jacket round at a velocity of 1,090 feet-per-second. The bad news, besides the…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Apr 2

February 26th 2007

MacBook Pro Takes a Cap for its Owner, Still Boots Up

Can’t afford to splurge on a Halliburton case for your shiny MacBook Pro? Turns out you may not have to. This Brasilian MacBook Pro over here took a bullet that was intended for its owner over the weekend during a mugging gone wrong and surprisingly, it still worked after being shot. So either that was…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Feb 26

February 8th 2007

Military Camera Sees Bullets in Slow Motion

It may sound like something from a sci-fi movie, but the military has gotten its hands on a camera that can see in bullet time. Developed by Nova Sensors, the high-speed camera can follow bullets midflight by mimicking the fovea part of the human eye (that’s the part that takes care of sharp, central vision).…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Feb 8

Woman’s Hair Weave May Have Stopped Bullet

Fingerprinting a Bullet the Bond Way

Could You Shoot Bendy Bullets, Just Like in “Wanted”?

Defender Hoodie: Look Good, Avoid Bullets

MacBook Pro Takes a Cap for its Owner, Still Boots Up

Military Camera Sees Bullets in Slow Motion

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