Tag Archives: technology

By the many arms of Vishnu, I swear that I will never wear a Bluetooth earpiece. Can you hear me now? Good..

The caffeinated doughnut. I’ll have the venti jelly..

The Pentagon has a new microwave “crowd control” device that is fired from a Humvee-based satellite dish. Those in the path of the beam feel as if they are about to burst into flames. With a range of 500 meters, the military claims that the device only penetrates human skin to a depth of 1/64 of an inch and cannot …

New York City taxis are about to be outfitted with a GPS-based video system that will play commercials for restaurants and stores as the taxi approaches that location. Passengers will have the option of turning the screens off, but I expect that most will sit slack-jawed and vacant-eyed, watching dreary Starbucks ads and robbing themselves of the quintessential New York …