The LAPD is testing glue-tipped GPS darts fired from police cruisers to track fleeing white Broncos.

The Los Angeles Police Department is testing a new secret weapon to halt high-speed pursuits: smart darts. The LAPD will use air-propelled miniature baseball size “tags” equipped with a global positioning system. The officers fire the darts, which stick to a fleeing motorist’s car, and within minutes can find and track the suspect’s location.

This reminds me of a video game (either Starfighter or Freespace) where you first shoot the target with a non-damaging tag. Once the target is tagged, you let loose with salvo of missiles that home in on the tag. So how long will it be before the LAPD mounts rocket launchers on cruisers or traffic lights, for that matter?

From Gizmodo:

It’s glow-in-the-dark to boot (no pun intended).

First off, let me say that I found this while browsing podcasts in the iTunes Store. Honestly, I swear.

It’s called Media Nipple. Naturally, that caught my attention, so I checked it out.

Reading on, it quickly became disappointing. It becomes apparent that the real content is legitimate social commentary. They explain that its name is a metaphor for the “deceptive practices of news media, and how easily we’ve all succumed to it, now requiring it for our daily nourishment.” What a let down.

But then, I checked out the standalone site (NSFW) outside of the iTunes Store. Good decision, me!

Everyone’s seen those spams that say shit like “Hot young co-eds eager 4 your member” then the link brings you to some site selling time shares. Well this is like that, but it does a second bait-and-switch making it a happy day.

If you build it they will come. Hot on the heels of the video iPod release comes a new site called POVpod (definitely NSFW). It delivers point-of-view porn movies to play on your video iPod. Their instructions are simple:

• Step 1 Download our Videos to your iPod through itunes 6
• Step 2 Hold iPod at crotch level
• Step 3 Watch our point-of-view (POV) video and feel like you’re there!

I’m counting the days until I see someone on the T with this.

From Slashdot:
A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. “We’ve found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer,” said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.

Story here.

From Gizmodo:

It seems as though the European electronics job market is a little weak. Mike Minton, an electronics engineer turned entrepreneur has made a nice little invention to assist him in creating toast soldiers. What the hell is a toast soldier you ask? It’s okay I had to research it too, a toast soldier is a slab of toast that is dunked into a soft-boiled egg. Minton was sick of the time consuming process of manually cutting the toast. Minton’s perfect soldier cutter cuts each piece of toast into 22mm even width strips of toasted goodness. Look for Sony’s knock-off ToastMan with proprietary ToastItUpGood technology.

Sadly, this is the most significant culinary contribution to the world that England has made since they first let foreign nationals open their own restaurants.

From Ananova,

Computer chips that store music could soon be built into a woman’s breast implants.
One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person’s whole music collection.
BT futurology, who have developed the idea, say it could be available within 15 years.

That’s sooo 2003. The video iPod is here now. Where’s the in-tit rear-projection display? You could watch a movie about boobs, and navigate with the familiar iPod scroll wheel/areola.