* Two words: explosive ink
* Space travel really screws you up
* “New H-Bombs!!! Woo-Hoo!!!“
* Drones for cops
* Laser pointers to Iraq
* Terror info-sharing: still sucktastic
* Shoe bomb plot: for real?
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I guess I’m not being skeptical enough- I just don’t see the beef with the foiled shoe-bomb plot. The question seems to be “How can you have a hijacking with shoe bombs?” and the answer which occurs is that threatening to blow up an aircraft in flight would work pretty well. In fact, the 9-11 commission report states that one team of hijackers claimed to have a bomb on board. I shouldn’t be surprised if other folks have brought some Semtex on a commercial flight and threatened to set it off if the crew didn’t set a course for Beirut, but to be honest I’m too tired to bother.
To “pedestrian”: the US Army already did an open competition for who would be their official Small UAV, in 2005. The RQ-11 Raven won by a large margin. Cyberbug (and its manufacturer, Cyber Defense Systems) could not meet the requirements. Cheap doesn’t matter if it cannot do the job! The military beats the living crap out of their SUAV systems and has high performance demands, neither of which the CyberBug can keep up with. However, there are probably other markets (non-military) where it might make a better showing.