What you see in the photo above is the LED Incapacitator, a nonlethal weapon that can make people sick. It’s being done by Intelligent Optical Systems, on a contract from Homeland Security.

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Found an interesting article on Blah, Blah! Technology, called How Close Are We To Star Trek Technology?. Being the Sci Fi fan that I am, I was very interested in this article and it’s well worth the read.

Give it a read, it’s nice to see that we’re getting closer to the technology in Star Trek. It talks about matter transporters, warp drive, transparent aluminium, hypospray, universal translator, cloaking device, force fields, phasers and tricorders.

An invention that exists for around half a century now, the jetpack, never quite got off the ground as a mass method of transportation. Despite the obvious problem of having fuel strapped to your back, the quantity that you could carry is quite limited. In fact it could only last for around 30-40 seconds.

A California company, called Thunderbolt Systems, based in San Jose, managed to double that flying time.

They managed to get the flying time to 75 second, by mixing into the hydrogen peroxide fuel some kerosene.  Obviously, it doesn’t sound like much, but 75 seconds will alow for a 3,500 feet travel for a 160 pound man. That’s just over 1km of travel.

The jetpack they offer is called TP-R2G2 and it will be sold starting from August, at the price of $98,000.

Thunderbolt claims that the jetpack could be used well by firefighters or rescue teams, but I don’t think they would be too inclined to trust their lives to the 75 second limit. Especially since a firefighter with all his gear would get that 75 seconds down quite a bit.

And here’s the video of a jetpack test from Thunderbolt.

A 26 year old woman from Anderson, Indiana was arrested on charges that she gave her daughter alcohol and pot, as a birthday gift for her 11th birthday.

There were 3 other minors present at the birthday party, and the cops are charging her with one felonious count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The kid accepted the gift, and according to the other kids, she drank from the alcohol and inhaled from a blunt.

What did the mother had to say? That she had alcohol and pot with her own adult friends at the party, but didn’t gave any to the kid.

A Briton, traveling through Dubai on his way to England, was arrested and sentenced to 4 years in jail, for having a microscopic piece of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes. Keith Brown by name, this guy was stopped while he was walking through the Dubai airport and searched with high tech equipment.

The search revealed a piece of cannabis on the bottom of one of his shoes, too small to be seen with the naked eye, weighing only 0.003 grams.

With their zero-tolerance policy when it comes to drugs, UAE did this kind of thing before. Just to show you how insane this is, another man was thrown in jail in the past for having in his possession three poppy seeds, left from a lunch he had before he left England.

Another man that had in his pocket a similar speck of cannabis last November is still waiting for his sentence.