Scientists in the US have re-animated canines after several hours of clinical death. They hope to learn more about inducing suspended animation in humans.

They used a technique where the blood was drained from the subject's veins and they were filled with a salt solution. After a few hours, the blood is pumped back in and the victim is revived with an electric shock. Plans for a trial on humans is due within the next year.

Source: News.com.au

Todd Lappin says: “The Pentagon has awarded a $7.5 million contract to Raytheon to develop a vehicle-mounted directed-energy weapon intended for riot and crowd-control use.”

The technology exploits the body's natural defense mechanism that induces pain as a warning to help protect it from injury. It uses a transmitter producing energy at a frequency of 95Ghz and an antenna to direct a focused, invisible beam to a subject at the speed of light and penetrate the skin to a depth of less than 1/64 of an inch. This produces an escalating heating sensation that becomes intolerable in seconds, and forces the subject to flee. The sensation immediately ceases when the individual moves out of the beam or when the system operator turns it off. Despite this sensation, the beam does not cause injury because of the shallow penetration depth of energy at this wavelength and the low energy levels used.

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I managed to get a copy of GoogleX. The new layout, which was online for only a few hours last week, resembles Mac OSX's dock. The mirror will be staying up for a while. I also have a zipped version.

LG's new NS1000 is being sold to the Korean market for Rs. 40, or $1. It's aimed at the lower end of the market, and there isn't much chance of being mugged. It can be used for calling and SMS only and has a single colour screen.

Source: Slashphone

BT have announced that as from the 17th February, they'll start to increase the downstream bandwdith of their ADSL packages. Upstream will remain the same, but 1Mbps services will be upgraded to 2Mbps, and the 512k basic packages will be increased to 1Mbps, still with a 1Gb per month cap.

Source: BBC

Jacko's been bailed out for $3 million after being arrested yesterday. Nutter…