Tag: GUNS

This fall, while working on a Georgia Power Company right-of-way in South Georgia, a power company employee found a bank of shotguns that was aimed directly into a wild boar feeding area, and fully connected to the Internet. After taking a few pictures, the employee called the Georgia Wildlife Resources Division, who, in turn, called the Office of Homeland Security. In a November 19th bulletin, ...

An Atlanta, Georgia man has his cell phone to thank for saving his life. John Garber, a parking attendant at a local nightclub, was shot in the chest by two men after one of them was thrown out of the club earlier in the evening. Garber was struck in the breast, but his cell phone deflected the bullet. (A 'Ha!' to naysayers who thought the Evo was too bulky.) He sustained only minor injuries, ...

A man who may (or may not) have robbed a jewelry store may (or may not) have announced his guilt on 4chan. On Saturday night, an anonymous 4chan user posted a picture showing what appears to be several rings, along with a message that read: "I just robbed a jewelry store with an M4 assault rifle. Feeling excited but kind of scared. wat do now?" Many, of course, doubted the man's claims, but one ...

If you've ever attended a sporting event, you've seen the guys and girls who carry air cannons on their shoulders and blast t-shirts into the stands. But rest assured, you have never seen anything like this 10-barrel, robotic Gatling gun that pumps out three tees every second. Designed by NASA and Team 254 Robotics of Bellarmine College Preparatory, the 'bot can blast a total of 400 shirts with ...

We already knew that a BlackBerry can stop a speeding bullet, but does your phone necessarily have to be "smart" in order to save your life? Juan Camarena found out the hard way, during a recent Harlem shootout. Camarena, a 54-year-old handyman at a Harlem apartment building, recently found himself in an inexplicably heated argument with the disgruntled former super of the building. Camarena, ...

While FIFA will probably never embrace technology in the World Cup, some sporting events are warming up to its potential benefits. According to the BBC News, athletes competing in the pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will shoot laser guns rather than the traditional air pistols used in past games. The switch reduces cost, for one, since laser guns won't use ammunition or air ...

The appeal of paintball is lost on us, but that doesn't mean we don't recognize a cool robotic paintball turret when we see one. Thanks to Ubergizmo, we found this particular one, a DIY project by some nerdy paintball enthusiasts at Alter Robotics. It's a pan-and-tilt, robotic tripod turret, equipped with an electronic paintball gun (that looks infinitely cooler than the one we got from Walmart ...

Despite its wares being billed as "non-lethal," we'd rather not find ourselves on the business end of a product from Taser International, which designs weapons that use a strong dose of electricity to incapacitate people. After learning about the company's latest venture, we don't think we'll change our minds any time soon, either. According to New Scientist, Taser is set to deliver prototypes of ...

Taser, maker of the controversial "less-lethal" weapon that zaps people with incapacitating levels of electricity (described as torture by the U.N.), has just released its latest tool for taking out the odd student protester and great-grandmother. The X12 Taser shotgun combines the occasionally lethal fun of electrocuting people with the also occasionally lethal impact of "non-lethal" shotgun ...

After Detective Omar Edwards was shot and killed by friendly fire while in plain clothes on May 28th, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly began seeking a way for firearms to communicate with one another in order to stop accidents like this from happening again. According to FOX News, the NYPD has initiated preliminary discussions about such devices with the Pacific Northwest National ...

Okay folks, if we've told you once, we've told you a thousand times: You should really make your Facebook profiles private. It's great to let it all hang out in the wild and go crazy, but if you have a job that you want to hang on to -- and these days, you should really be trying to do so -- it's in your best interest to keep things on the down-low. Need more proof? Check out the case of Betsy ...

If you think the mafia has just been sitting around slowly watching itself sink into irrelevance and letting the world pass it by you'd be sadly mistaken. Need proof? Just check out the Bond-esque weapon found during a Mob related raid in Naples. A four round .22 caliber pistol was concealed within a somewhat dated looking cell phone, complete with dummy LCD screen. The keypad on the ...