Bear Trouble? There’s a $2,000 Taser for That…
Taser International, the Arizona based stungun maker, today launched a novel version of its often controversial nonlethal weapon: but it’s one geared for felling wild animals like grizzly bears, rather than police suspects or airport detainees. The purpose of the device is to give park rangers, hunters and hikers the ability to disable bears, elk…
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Paul Marks - NewScientist
All-Seeing Blimp Could Be Afghanistan’s Biggest Brain
This fall, there’ll be a new and extremely powerful supercomputer in Afghanistan. It’ll be floating 20,000 feet above the warzone, aboard a giant spy blimp that watches and listens to everything for miles around. That is, if an ambitious, $211 million crash program called “Blue Devil” works out as planned. As of now, the airship’s…
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Noah Shachtman - Wired
