Sepp Blatter (left), the FIFA president, has explained why there won't be goal-line technology at this year's World Cup, saying he wants the sport to maintain a "human element" and that all levels of soccer, from 6-year-old kids to open-goal-missing Gonzalo Higuaín of Real Madrid, need to be played with the same rules. Whatever...
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I hear you asking: what is it good for? Unlike war, it’s actually pretty useful. I mean, useful if you really care about growing plants systematically… and you liked Gladiator. My only objection to this setup is that it’s a pretty obvious way of culling humans once the Robocalypse comes. If the robots are...
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If you’ve played Borderlands, you’ve probably chuckled at some of the hybrid guns they’ve created — shotguns that shoot rockets and all that. Well, as it turns out, there really is some sort of unholy cross-pollination going on in the underground gun trade, because there are shotgun revolvers.
What? It’s kind of a gadget.
It looks...
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A good idea if you can afford the cartridges: Mark Tasman took a picture of himself every day (or more often) for 10 years, and has put them all in order to create this video. Man, that would be an arduous process. I’d have to hire an underling.
If you need more time-shifted beard action,...
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Your average "compact" camera today can record 30 frames per second at 640x480. What would you say, then, to a camera so compact it could sit inside one of your cells, so sensitive it can detect a single photon, and record at a million frames per second? Well first, you might say "keep that...
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