Monday, August 8, 2011 - 12:49pm
Instead of freaking out over an ant problem, an Indian scientist decided to see what happened if he welcomed the little buggers with gifts of colored sugar water. The results were fairly spectacular.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 4:48pm
This is what it would look like if you were sitting underneath a planetarium dome which was slowly getting covered with bugs. Those with even a casual fear of insects will not want to watch the video. It gets way, way worse.
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 6:45am
So far, iPhone alarms around the world have failed to wake people up for the first three days of 2011. Apple claimed that the bug only effected the first two days of the year, but the bug appeared to still be causing issues today. Maybe Apple's tech fixers overslept?
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 2:06am
Shades of Little Shop of Horrors' Audrey with this LED clock from Brit designers Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger. Part flycatcher, part timepiece, the gizmo harvests insects on a sticky roller covered in flypaper, before dropping the corpses into a...
Friday, May 29, 2009 - 10:32am
Bug season is upon us, but this time we're going to make a special effort to be ready for those bloodsucking varmints. Short of blasting them with lasers, maybe this Heated Itch Soother can help. The theory behind it: If...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 12:58pm
The Fly Goodbye is a shotgun-like apparatus for ridding your general vicinity of pesky insects. Rather than firing bullets, when you pull the trigger the Fly Goodbye will suck air in, including any bugs that happen to inhabit said air....
- Bill Gates
- Bugs
- disease
- insects
- lasers
- malaria
- medical
- mosquitoes
- pest control
- pew pew
- Reagan
- research
- rocket science
- SDI
- star wars
- Strategic Defense Initiative
- the 80s
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 4:59am
A relic from the '80s, Reagan's "Star Wars" program, or Strategic Defense Initiative, involved lasers designed to shoot down satellites. Decades later, I'm happy to report that we're looking into how to turn those lasers on mosquitoes. Yep, you read...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 11:48am
Killing bugs can result in more than one downside for those with a sensitive constitution. For one, you kill a poor, helpless bug. Secondly, you leave said helpless bug's entrails smeared all over your wall, necessitating a cleanup, which is...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 12:29pm
The bug zapper isn't what you'd call a high brow gadget. No, it's entertainment for the easily entertained, a bug murdering device that emits a horrible glow and makes a somewhat-satisfying "zzzzap" sound every time an unfortunate insect is...
Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 2:45pm
You don’t have to be a cat-stroking diabolical bad guy, hell-bent on destroying the world, to want some countermeasures to commonly-procured spy gear. Inspired by this article pointing out the “Top 10 barely-legal gadgets for the modern spy," we...
