Tag: LIGHTNING

Think, for a moment, about lightning. With all our talk of sci-fi and high-tech, we often forget that, in our world, since long before the dawn of man, rays of fatal electricity have shot down from the sky to stab the earth. Crazy. And it's crazier still to think that we've never tamed it -- never used it to power our personal hovercrafts. Of course, before the other day, we'd never taken an X-ray ...

Well, the video game fear mongering continues. According to a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher, there has been an increase in instances of indoor gamers being injured by lightning strikes. Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, director of the university's lightning injury research program told UPI that in the case of a thunderstorm, "people need to stay off landlines, computers, and video games." We ...

The iPod is officially the miracle device of the 21st century. Not only does it let us carry around our entire music collections in our pockets, but it has also saved an infantryman's life in Iraq, and led to the rescue of not one but two groups of lost skiers. So what does this life-saving media player do for an encore? Control lightning and decrease the effects of electrocution, of course! Sure, ...

News is just starting to be circulated about a 2005 incident of an iPod-wearing jogger struck by lightning. Apparently, he was unlucky enough to run by a tree as it was being struck. His iPod, and the headphones he was wearing, acted as a conductor, channeling the electricity straight into his ears. Doctors apparently found burn marks across his chest where the headphones hung and determined that ...

Following on the heels of Connaught's plan to release a 42 miles-per-gallon hybrid sports car, the newly-formed Lightning Car Company is planning on releasing an all-electric roadster, also called Lightning. The U.K.-based company hopes to release its two-seater sometime in 2008. When it ships, the car is estimated to deliver 0-60 times of less than four seconds. If achieved, this statistic ...