British police are on the lookout for this dangerous £200.00 knife which was designed for killing wild bears and sharks. Senior police officers have been told that this knife kills by injecting a compressed ball of gas into the victim. The gas is capable of snap-freezing tissues and organs around the area of impact.

Better known as the Wasp knife, a needle located at the end of the blade shoots out the frozen ball of gas which immediately increases to the size of roughly a basketball, causing internal organs to fail and eventually death. Which makes me think of the movie ‘No Country for Old Men’ where the bad guy goes around killing people with a cylinder of oxygen (?). And for those who haven’t yet watched the movie yet, I don’t mean that he bashes them on the head with the cylinder either!

The knife [http://www.waspknife.com/] comes with a disclaimer that it can ‘down many of the largest land predators’. The fact that the Metropolitan Police have issued warnings means that the threat is very much a real one.

When this article was published in the Daily Mail, a reader commented that he knows of a ‘copy’ of the weapon being sold in Thailand for £180.00. The vendors demonstrate its effects on dead chickens and pigs. With the amount of trouble police are having with knife crimes and gangs carrying other such small concealable weapons, I am sure this is one nightmare they wish didn’t exist.

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Until September 28 this year, the Design Museum will be exhibiting a selection of Tim Walker’s photographs. If you don’t already know, he specialises in fashion photography. I hate to call it that because it comes with so many connotations. But you’ll definitely see him in fashion magazines (see Vogue for example where he has been commissioned several times).

I think they are more like moments captured from elaborate period drama’s or movie sets. Some of them are quite dreamy while others are just bizarre.

For a better idea why not check out the websites: http://www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2008/timwalker and http://www.thomastreuhaft.com/Tim_Walker/tw.html.

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This one is great! I was really chuffed when I read about this robotic coffee making barista. We have the Italians to thank for placing such an invention high on their to-do lists. Not so hard to believe when I think even the toddlers there suckle on espressos. The DEXMART robot project which incidentally costs 6 million Euro’s focused on the development of robotic hands.

Led by Naples university professor Bruno Sciliano, Justine’s (the robot) hand movements are so precise that it can mimic almost all the movements of a human hand. This of course refers to movements concerned for coffee making.

The goal for the team of researchers is to create a system which allows for 2 handed manipulation. Also, they are in the process of equipping the robot with sensors to make it conscious of space and its surroundings.

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I stopped drinking Coke and other soda’s years ago for health and political reasons. But sometimes I do get a small craving for it, although I have never fallen off the bandwagon with regards to my principles on this matter.

But have you ever wondered why Coke makes us so happy and there are millions of Coke-addicts around the world? Well simply because Coke gets you high. In spite of its cocaine content having been removed from it, Coke is so potent because according to Technorati:

The first 10 minutes is equivalent to 10 teaspoons of sugar right into your system. Yeah, that equates to 100% of your recommended daily intake. A sudden sugar intake would probably induce vomiting but we don’t because of Coke’s phosphoric acid which acts by numbing our taste receptors thus allowing us keep the drink down.

After 20 minutes, blood sugar levels spike which in turn, results in a surge of nsulin coursing through our system. This causes the liver to work overtime converting any sugar it finds (yeah, there’s a lot of this right now) into fat.

40 minutes on and any trace of caffeine left in the body is completely absorbed. This results in dilation of the pupils and a spike in the blood pressure. The liver reacts to this emergency signal by releasing even more sugar into the bloodstream. Just when you thought the worse was over, all adenosine receptors in your brain short circuit preventing drowsiness.

45 minutes later your body increases the amount of dopamine being produced to stimulate the pleasure centres of the brain. Quite the same way in which heroin and other similar hard drugs work.

After more than 1 hour after ingestion the phosphoric acid which has been having free reign finally binds with calcium, magnesium and zinc in the lower intestine causing an extra boost in metabolism. Then we begin to excrete calcium through our urinary processes which were set off by the high dosage of sugar intake and artificial sweeteners. Caffeine and its diuretic effects manifest forcing us to answer the call of nature and thus removing the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc from our system together with sodium and electrolyte.

After the sugar high comes the sugar crash which could result in irritability or sluggishness or even both. By this time any water to be found in the Coke or in your body has been depleted (through urine) together with nutrients found in the body. The next few hours there will be a caffeine crash and its effects could be amplified if you’re a smoker.

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This is hilarious. The most important question you need to ask yourself, “…how many cannibals could my body feed…” I suppose it’s apt this day and age when we’re at the door o destruction! Who knows, we could be acting in our own little Doomsday film some day. I sure hope I’m tasty. http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/cannibal_lunch

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Just the other day I spilt some water on my keyboard. Thankfully it wasn’t even for me to start pulling my hair out, but it did cause me some grief for a brief few seconds. Then I stumbled upon this; a waterproof keyboard.

Manufactured specifically for industrial, marine or medical use…as well as in other sectors where moisture, cleaning and durability are a consideration. It is also being touted as ‘contaminant proof’, whatever that means. But if it really is contaminant proof that would be a bonus as recent studies have shown that there are more bacteria prospering on your keyboard than on the toilet bowl. Hmm, makes me want to go and splurge $199.00 on this little baby right now.

Other features include a sealed silicone design for dust-free, contaminant-free and water resistant usage, no moving parts (eh?) to minimise failures, USB and PS2 connections and tactile feedback similar to those found on standard keyboards. And guess what? It cleans with soap and water! The keyboard keys are also silent so madly hitting the keys will no longer produce that time worn sound were all pretty much used to by now. Available now from with a special limited lifetime warranty.

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Off the coast of Mexico, an amateur photographer managed to photograph thousands of Golden Rays as they made their biannual migration to more suitable waters.

Sandra Critelli, who was off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula looking for whale sharks, was amazed to see them gliding just beneath the surface of the water turning it from blue to gold. She estimates that there could have been thousands of Golden Rays in that area. Measuring at about 7 feet from one end its wing tip to the other, these rays are also ordinarily called Cow Nose Rays because of their pointed pectoral fins that separate into two lobes in front of their high domed heads giving them the appearance of cows.

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