Tag: SCARY

Watch these guys (who are, by any measure, braver than you are) free-climb a 1,768-foot broadcasting tower (just shy of the height of the Sears Willis Tower, if you count its antennas) after the jump. Apparently, OSHA lets workers climb without lines because those "safety" ropes just get in the damn way. Best/worst job ever? We're a bit nauseous now. ...

What better way to fight the dangers of biological warfare than with... biological warfare? As Wired's Danger Room reports, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is set on investing a full $6 million in a project called "BioDesign," an ambitious plan that, if successful, would spawn a whole army of genetically engineered organisms programmed to fight the good fight -- until the end of ...

If you've ever dressed up for Halloween, you've probably bumped into someone at a party or bar who's wearing the same costume as you. From experience, we can say it's a deflating feeling. While the holiday is practically upon us, you might want to quickly scan this list of popular costume searches before you head out into the night. What costumes are in this year? Well, CNET News reports ...

Medical robots are nothing new to us here at the Switched offices. We've covered them before. But those robots haven't terrified us nearly as much as this, the Bloodbot. The bot's form is a simple mechanical arm, equipped with a probe and needle. The probe feels around your arm for flesh that is relatively firm, betraying the presence of a vein. The Bloodbot then sticks you with the needle, ...

The students of Newquay Junior School in Cornwall, England have more to worry about than exams. Dozens of school children(some as young as seven) have received a terrifying e-mail threatening them with certain death. The e-mail is titled "11 year old pregnant girl." When opened, it reads: "My name is Ofelia Heras. I'm 16 years old. I'm a murderer. I have no face. When you look at me you will ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/10/31/15-scariest-ghost-videos-on-the-web/'; With Halloween finally here, folks are in a scary kind of mood. And since the economy is so scary itself right now, we decided to save you the bones you'd spend on renting 'Child's Play' 1 through 7, and instead give you links to 12 especially freaky (and free) ghost videos. Just don't blame us for the ...

With Halloween just around the bend, Mark Gervais' creation is just too timely too ignore. Originally conceived around this time last year, the Hallowindow projector rig turns your peaceful, totally plain home into a nightmarish haunted house with just a beamer, a white sheet, a source, some speakers and Mark's own animation DVD. All's that left for you to do is hop on past the break for a ...

It was five years ago when Frank Jones' wife and son died unexpectedly. His son, Steven, died of a brain tumor at an early 32. Three months later, his wife, Sadie died from a heart attack at the age of 69. Sadie was a cell phone addict. "She always had a mobile with her," Jones told the Blackpool Gazette. So, of course, they buried Sadie with her cell phone. Now Jones believes Sadie is getting ...

Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this story. In fairness, so will just about everybody else. We hope. Comcast is experimenting with camera technology. More specifically, it trying out technology that turns cable boxes into camera-equipped devices that would utilize body-form-recognition as a means to provide custom-tailored service, and, of course, custom tailored ...

Might want to sit down and cross the legs for this one, fellas. A new vasectomy procedure has been developed by a team of researchers from Australia's University of Adelaide. Essentially, it consists of a silicone polymer valve that fits snugly inside the vas deferens, thereby blocking the passage of sperm. The valve is inserted through a hypodermic needle, so there's no need for surgery. The ...

Ladies: if you thought random dudes sending you marriage proposals laced with spelling mistakes and little-to-no grammar on MySpace was freaky, just wait until mugr.com takes off -- the creepy quotient promises to be off the scales. Mugr is essentially a "face-based" search engine, linked to its own social-networking site (and offered to others through an API), connects images of people's ...