How To Eavesdrop on Bluetooth Conversations-I could think of a few uses for this.
A Walking Table– Kind of Cool.
Insults from Around The World– Because you never know when you might need one of these.
Business Cards That Will Get You Business
Here are some pix of a few that I liked with links to the whole load.
How To Open a Beer Without an Opener
I have used a few of these tricks once or twice. Funny to realize that I learned them all a good twenty years or so ago.
The Israeli Flying Car
A group of Israeli technology and defense firms are working on what could become the world’s first robotic aircraft for evacuating, and even treating, soldiers injured on the battlefield. Let’s just hope the technology is a little slicker than the concept art (right).
Israel’s Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies is working with local techies and arms-makers to build “MedUAV,” a combination of ducted-fan flying drone and robotic ambulance. According to Defense News‘ Barbara Opall-Rome, the Institute is hoping — hoping — to start test flights in 24 months. Eventually, the idea is to carry up to four passengers at speeds of 150 knots and heights of up to 10,000 feet.
(If the whole thing looks retro-futuro familiar, that’s because Urban Aeronautics, makers of this concept drone, is one of the companies behind the robo-medevac.)
Six of the 119 soldiers killed in Israel’s 33-day war with Hezbollah might have survived, if the Israeli Defense Forces “had been able to evacuate casualties within the so-called ‘golden hour,’ when their chances for recovery were relatively high. But because the IDF could not thoroughly cleanse urban areas of hidden terrorists and concealed rocket-launching squads, the Israel Air Force often could not dispatch medical evacuation helicopters upon demand,” Defense News notes.
You Might be Dead But Your Body Can Still
CNN has the full story. I’ll share the list with you. I think that they forgot to include mannequin and hat/coat rack. I have a few quick comments.
1. Get married (Some people equate marriage with death.)
2. Unwind with a few friends (Sure, I always keep a corpse to pal around with. They never interrupt me.)
3. Tour the globe as a scandalous work of art
4. Fuel a city
5. Get sold, chop shop-style
6. Become a Soviet tourist attraction
7. Snuggle up with your stalker
8. Don’t spread an epidemic
9. Stand trial
10. Stave off freezer burn
Weird News
Sometimes we just have to share the junk we stumble over. Here are a few stories interspersed with my comments.
He Took The Gator For a Ride
…the trooper noticed a 6-foot alligator contentedly riding next to the back window of Johnson’s car. Johnson said he found the gator on the side of a road.
I feel confident that the trooper was able to assess the mental state of the gator, but wait, there is more to the story. What happened when in a separate incident a different officer spoke with Mr. Johnson.
Johnson advised the officer that there was a water moccasin snake in his car and that the snake had already bitten him on the hand.
An animal control officer found the snake and removed it, Longbotham said.
Johnson refused medical treatment for his hand.
Early Sunday a resident of a local mobile home park said Johnson knocked on his door and asked for help hauling a big television out of a mobile home, Longbotham said.
“The neighbor told him that’s not your house,” the chief said.
Then the neighbor noticed the alligator in the back seat of Johnson’s car, Longbotham said.
Johnson left the television in the yard and drove away.
If I saw an alligator in a car, I’d probably call the police. Ok, on to the second story.
What do you do when your surgeon laughs at you. In this next story we learn that a patient suffered severe embarrassment from the laughter of doctors and nurses involved in his operation. Now, I don’t condone their laughter, but when you read the story you’ll see that he should have been embarrassed just to be there.
Sun.Star: CEBU CITY, Philippines – Unethical and scandalous.
That’s how several doctors described the behavior of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) doctors and nurses during the operation to remove a perfume canister from the anus of a male patient.
Doctors involved in the operation were seen laughing boisterously during the operation, which was recorded on video. A video clip was later uploaded to the video sharing website YouTube.
Dr. Emmanuel Gines, VSMMC media liaison officer and emergency room department head, said in a radio interview that they will apologize to the 39-year-old patient identified only as Jan-Jan because of the embarrassment he suffered.
And as has been said many times. Teleconference means you are being televised.