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Our Weird and Wonderful Future

A compendium of information, news, opinion, speculation, resources, tools, and silly stuff about the edge of our reality, the technology "spike", and the weird and wonderful future hurtling towards us.

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Name: David Atkinson
Location: Tokyo, Japan

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9.20.2005

Privacy or Censorship?

A new device, which the creaters call a "Capture Resistant Environment", automatically detects and blinds cameras within a several meter effective zone.

Power-dressing man leaves trail of destruction

But did his cell phone survive?

"SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. ...."We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said."

Power-dressing man leaves trail of destruction