Tag: BULLET

Brazil -- land of caipirinhas, Carnival and one of the world's highest crime rates per capita -- will be a bit more like the world of 'The Running Man' starting next week. In one of the scariest advertising schemes known to us, Unilever's detergent line Omo will be placing GPS devices in select boxes of suds throughout the country. According to Advertising Age, "consumers who buy one of the ...

Share Oh, the humanity! The world's largest airship, called the Bullet 580, is set to take off on its maiden voyage later this year -- and it will do Thomas Pynchon proud. The craft measures 235 feet long by 65 feet in diameter, and reaches an altitude of 20,000 feet. The bulbous blimp can be flown with or without a crew, carrying up to 2,000 pounds of cargo and/or passengers. But jumbo-jet it ...

The Apple iPod. Cultural icon. Technological revolution. Life saver...? Yes, according to Kevin Garrad, an infantryman deployed in Iraq. While on patrol in Iraq, he turned a corner and found himself face to face with an AK-47 wielding insurgent. Both fired and both took hits. The insurgent died, but Kevin was lucky enough to to have a 20 gigabyte iPod in his chest pocket in addition to his body ...