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Aug 1, 2012 11:40 AM   It's not entirely clear how you're supposed to sit on this. It looks like a crafty person cobbled together a bunch of matching hangers and said "voila! A stool!" Rest easy, because the Heavy Rabbit stool from Bongo Design actually pretty solid. The 40-pound seat is made of 31 hand-bent steel pieces welded together in a way that conveniently leaves room for a little storage. A closer inspection shows its lines to look like the parts of a suspension bridge, even if at first glance it's something that even the most slight little Olympic gymnast would crush, Chris Farley-style. [Design Sponge] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

Mortars are an invaluable tool for infantry forces, but the problem is that they aren't exactly accurate, only half land within 136 meters of where they're aimed. That sort of success rate just won't do in Afghanistan, where minimizing collateral damage is an imperative. That's why General Dynamics built a mortar with pinpoint accuracy. Mortars provide indirect (not line-of-sight) firing capabilities to infantry troops against both enemy positions and assets without having to rely on heavy artillery forces. Mortars are dumb-bombs that come in either finned or spin-stabilized varieties. Finned mortars utilize metal fletching to maintain its flight path, while the spin-stabilized version travels much as a bullet does when leaving a rifle barrel. Both types are fired at low speeds with high, arcing trajectories. That's great when you want to fire upon an enemy base from behind the crest of a hill (as the Vietnamese did with great success in the siege of Khe Sahn), but...

Back in 2010, Google caught a bit of flak when a "rogue engineer" used Street View cars to harvest personal Wi-Fi data. Now it's poised to catch some more; Authorities in the UK found Google's been holding onto some of it for the past two years. When the data snooping came to light back in 2010, Street View cars had already been extracting private information from insecure personal Wi-Fi networks approximately three years. According to Google, it all happened under the radar, and as soon as it found out about, it fessed up, apologized, and promised to delete all the questionable data. Turns out it didn't. The news came out when the UK Information Commissioner's Office published a statement saying that: Google contacted the ICO to confirm that it still had in its possession some of the payload data collected by its Street View vehicles prior to May 2010... Google indicated that they wanted to delete the remaining data and asked for the ICO's instructions ...

Jul 24, 2012 4:00 PM   Gargantuan Android phones are everywhere. But a lot of people just want something smaller. The Incredible 4G is one of the few phones that isn't the size of a dinner plate, but it also raises a question: Does an Android OS even make sense on smaller screens anymore? The best HTC phone on Verizon—which did not get the HTC One series. Android fans who love small phones. HTC Sense enthusiasts. Beats by Dre fans, maybe, but probably not. It's an HTC phone. It's solidly built, with a matte rubberized back. It's thick enough that, when you first pick it up, you're not sure if it has a slide-out keyboard or not. Using the Incredible never feels like using a premium phone. It's fast, until it's not. Lag creeps in under medium loads. With several apps running, actions like returning to the home page slow to a crawl. The camera. HTC's been making good cameras for a while, going back to the Amaze last year, and definitely including the One ...

Getty The AR-15 One of the guns that suspect James Holmes used in the Colorado theater massacre of at least 12 early Friday morning is quickly reigniting the gun-control debate.  The AR-15 is a semi-automatic assault rifle that is a civilian version of the military's M-16. According to CNN, it's capable of carrying up to 100 rounds. It shoots one bullet at a time that can "may go through two people" at once. And it's legal in the United States.  After the Aurora Police Department revealed that this was one of the guns Holmes used, outrage ensued online, mostly because the gun would have been a lot harder to purchase under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban that expired in 2004. Congress has not voted to replace the bill, which was enacted in 1994 but had a "sunset provision" that let it expire.  Here's a breakdown of some of the more harsh restrictions it would have faced under the 1994 bill, via The Guardian :  The manufacture and import of AR-15s and...