Killzone 2 was a very pretty game. Well, bloody grey warzones are not pretty, but it is still one of the best lookers on the PS3, and it’s sequel is looking to up the ante by presenting the stunning graphics in 3D. The game is set to be released around May 2011, and will have full 3D support – so time to start saving for yet another new TV if you are into that sort of thing. We have a raft of 2D screenshots, click the wee pics to make them nice and big.
Along with the Bouncing Bomb, The S.A.S, Computers, Radar and any number of other Kerazy secret military inventions that have since become standard, the British also came up with a few..less successful..ideas during WWII. This weekend, to coincide with the 65th anniversary of D-Day, at least one made a comeback (no, not the cardboard army – wiki it!), behold..The Great PanJanDrum!!!
Filled with 400lbs of Hi-Ex, this self-propelled firecracker barrel was designed to cross beaches under it’s own power, before blowing a bloody great hole in Germany’s Atlantic coast defenses. Unfortunately, it turned out to be far more likely to roll the wrong way, or just blow up in the face of whoever launched it.
Fortunately the jet engine worked a little better.
Atrocious spelling aside, the chance to see Brad Pitt playing an odious turd has to be worth the admission price right?
With the apocalypse fast approaching, it’s obviously time to cash in. So it is with great fanfare that a new catalogue landed on our doorstop this morning, and for once it wasn’t for ‘Wizzy Kebabs’. Nope, because this is the time of year that the cheery optimists over at American Bomb Shelter have a sale!
Seems Obama’s positive attitude hasn’t convinced some people (Especially now that Putin has proved he can kill a tiger in a wrestling match), so home shelters are big business again. So it’s heartening to see that just $16,000 (about £3.27p) will net you:
All of the precision manufactured steel parts
All of the pre-cut and shaped rebar, including enough for one riser
A single blast hatch for that riser
Two 8-foot ladder sections for a 16-foot ladder
An ASR-100N-NBC Safe Cell air filtration/ventilation system
Two blast valves (one each for the air intake and exhaust pipes)
One overpressure valve
Free telephone technical support
And free delivery too!
LINK (ABS)
DARPA are at it again. This time our favourite architects of military weird are funding quite successful research to remotely control a rhinoceros beetle.
Researchers at the university controlled the movement of beetle wings and some other parts using radio signals sent to the six electrodes on its brain and muscles. They equipped the beetle with a module incorporating a circuit to send signals to the electrodes, wireless circuit, microcontroller and battery. The university has so far succeeded in several experiments of electrically controlling insects, but it used a radio control system this time.
For what purpose does the university conduct such a research? Considering the fact that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the US is funding the research, it may be intended for military purposes.
Commenting on this point, the university said that the technology can be utilized for peaceful purposes as well. In fact, the radio-controlled beetle can be useful in places that are too narrow or dangerous for a human to enter and for many other purposes.
I’m doubting there will be peaceful purposes involved. I’m expecting weaponized scorpions and spiders going into combat situations controlled by an army of griefers. Horrible
LINK (Tech On)
