Hulleye Comes By!

the new tmnt is gonna kick ass. and in it’s honour.

so this is how absurd people trying to make money can get. i don’t even know why i’m blogging it here. there’s a plan to spot terrorists in airplane seats now. and when will they realize that airplane threats are totally overdone now. move your focus elsewhere people!

Cameras fitted to seat-backs will record every twitch, blink, facial expression or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software which will check it against individual passenger profiles.

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They say that rapid eye movements, blinking excessively, licking lips or ways of stroking hair or ears are classic symptoms of somebody trying to conceal something.

A separate microphone will hear and record even whispered remarks. Islamic suicide bombers are known to whisper texts from the Koran in the moments before they explode bombs.

The software being developed by the scientists will be so sophisticated that it will be able to take account of nervous flyers or people with a natural twitch, helping to ensure there are no false alarms.

it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that aside from false positives, nervous flyers and religious people are shit out of luck. can anyone say big brother real quick?

This tiny girl is wearing what’s called a “Power Jacket”, which is an inflatable exokeleton that weighs only four pounds.

Japanese electronics giant Matsushita Electric Industrial unveils the prototype model for a “power jacket” to help patients recover from partial paralysis during rehabilitation, at the Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition in Tokyo.

Man who gutted cellmate had mental problems

By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News
February 12, 2007

The man accused of killing his prison cellmate, then gutting him and hanging his intestines from a clothesline in his cell, has a history of brain injuries and untreated mental problems that would have made it difficult for him to think clearly, plot a murder or “resist impulses,” defense attorneys said today.

Geniuses. Pure brainiacs.