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Alarm News
Security and Alarm News
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Epidemic of unneeded
amputations
Non-traumatic amputations
– those caused by arterial blockages related to
diabetes, smoking, obesity and vascular system
complications – are occurring at an alarming
rate. Yet physicians may be too quick to amputate
as 85 percent of them may be preventable,
according to the International Diabetes
Foundation. |
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Greenpeace's [FILL IN ALARMIST
FACTOID] public relations
meltdown,
"This volatile and dangerous
source of energy" is no answer to the country's
energy needs, shouted a Greenpeace fact sheet
decrying the "threat" posed by the Limerick
reactors Bush visited. But a factoid or two later,
the Greenpeace authors were stumped while
searching for the ideal menacing metaphor. -- From
article. |
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Biohazard Alarm
We
usually think of bacteria as something that can
harm us. But as this ScienCentral News video
explains, now scientists are building smart
sensors made from harmless bacteria that could
alarm us to dangerous chemicals and germs in the
environment. |
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Alarm clock puzzler won't shut up
until you can play Simon.
An
engineering student has made an infernal alarm
clock that won't stop until you can repeat a
random sequence on the colored buttons. If they
market this it will definitely need to withstand
some random punishment, and be able to defeat the
remove power cheat! |
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JBL On Time - Time Machine Dock for
iPod
The JBL On Time acts as a docking
station, charger, and speaker system for your
iPod. It also functions as an alarm clock and a
radio. As you can see, the JBL On Time combines a
number of different features into one unique
device, but how well does it perform these
functions? |
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For The Future Hydrogen Economy, A
Tiny, Self-Powered Sensor
A team of
more than a dozen University of Florida
engineering faculty and graduate students has
found a way to jump that hurdle: a tiny,
inexpensive sensor device that can detect hydrogen
leaks and sound the alarm by wireless
communication. |
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VeriChip RFID Implants for
Immigrants
Scott Silverman, Chairman of
the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has alarmed
civil libertarians by promoting the company's
subcutaneous human tracking device as a way to
identify immigrants and guest workers |
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South American pyramid is a farming
"alarm clock"
“I was staring up at
the temple and realised it all aligned with the
stars... this alignment meant that at dawn at
every winter solstice 4,200 years ago, stars would
appear in line with the temple and alert priests
that river flooding was due and it was time to
start planting crops. It was laid out as a wake-up
call to the community.” |
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ITWire's "Linux Test Pilot" says his
next Windows notebook is a
MacBook
Given that I have been a DOS
and Windows user for 20 years, the fact that I am
seriously considering buying a MacBook should be
ringing alarm bells and sending shivers down the
collective spines of Dell, Acer, Lenovo, HP, and
all the other PC notebook makers. If I'm
considering the MacBook, then so will many other
dissatisfied notebook users. |
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Global Warming FAQ: What Every
Citizen Needs To Know
Alarm over the
prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by
the agreed science or economics of the issue.
Global warming is happening and man is responsible
for at least some of it. But this doesn't mean we
need drastic cuts in energy. |
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Automatic Chemical Agent Detector
Alarm(ACADA)
The ACADA is an advanced
point-sampling, chemical warfare agent detection
system that continuously monitors for the presence
of nerve agents and blister chemicals using IMS
(Ion Mobility Spectrometry) technology. It
provides early warning of chemical attacks and can
be remotely deployed, vehicle mounted or carried
by soldiers. |
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E3 HAIKU
Brutus, alarm
clock! Six more hours until Wii. Rome be my legs,
Burn. (and eight more like that) |
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L. Tribe gives Bush what’s coming
to him
Privacy apart, this president's
defiance of statutes by the dozens is
constitutionally alarming. But the matter goes
deeper still. Proof that 911/Whitehouse was by USA
Military. |
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Big Oil Launches Attack on Al
Gore
Today, the Competitive Enterprise
Institute will unveil two 60-second TV ads
focusing on what it calls “global warming
alarmism" The ad is being released just a week
before the opening of Al Gore’s new movie on
global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. |
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Monkeys Use "Sentences," Study
Suggests
Putty-nosed monkeys put two
different alarm calls together to create urgent
warnings, according to observations recently made
of the West African primates. These monkey
"sentences" appear to be evidence of what is
widely considered to be a uniquely human ability:
stringing words together to convey a message, or
syntax. |
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Critics Assail Washington Over
Starving Elk
MOUNT ST. HELENS WILDLIFE
AREA, Wash. - More than 25 years after its
eruption turned this river valley into moonscape,
elk living in the shadow of Mount St. Helens are
starving to death at a rate that has alarmed many
observers. |
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New iRiver Clix (2GB) Ranks 8.7 On
Cnet
Sleek and stylish, the iRiver Clix
offers a unique, intuitive interface and comes
with extras such as an FM radio; a voice recorder;
an alarm clock; support for OGG files and
subscription content; and photo, video, and text
viewing. Could this be a Nano contender? |
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