On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:15:03 -0500, Pedro Sanchez
<Dr.PedroSanchez@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:48:19 -0600, "Notroll2007"
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:20:38 +1300, Sir Gilligan Horry
<GM@ga7rm5er.com> wrote:
So Many People Want Their Money .........
Instead of being Loving and Caring and Honest.
Care, love and honesty won't buy food or porno.
Yeah, for that you'll either have to sell the burro, your sister, or get a
job.
I wish hookers would take me on the honor system. I could get head and
promise money next time, then switch to a new hooker, then repeat. I
bet I could hit 50 of them before they knew my game.
There's only 50,000 cities I could go to next.
Anyway, what were you saying?
Stop using money.
Build your own microwave howitzer. Guaranteed to ward off the money
collectors:
How to make your own microwave howitzer, which is undetectable.
And free.
Invention: Microwave-oven gun
12:58 23 October 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Microwave-oven gun
You can do a lot of damage with a directed beam of microwave energy. It can
destroy electronics by inducing high voltages in chips and wires (just as
metal objects spark if left in a microwave oven). Such a beam could also
burn a person's skin, or even detonate improvised explosive devices by
exciting unstable chemicals.
A megawatt magnetron is normally needed to make the beam, though, and these
are big and expensive beasts that need water cooling.
However, two inventors from Albuquerque, New Mexico in the US, reckon there
is cheaper way to get the power. Simply gather together a stack of
magnetrons ripped out of consumer microwave ovens, and lock their output
together so that they combine into one coherent beam. What is more, they
say, the trick can be done mechanically.
Microwave magnetrons come with a tube-shaped component that controls the
output signal. The idea is to arrange a dozen or so side by side and have a
small metal plate in front that reflects some of the energy from each tube
back into the mouth of adjacent ones. This should make all the magnetrons
resonate in synchronisation, the inventors reckon. Three hundred consumer
devices, rated at 1 kilowatt each, could combine to generate megawatt pulses
from the back of a mobile generator.
The only puzzle is why the US government Patent Office has published an
application that might explain to anyone, including terrorists, how to build
such a weapon.
Read the full microwave oven gun patent application.
Apple's finger sensor
Researchers at Apple's headquarters in California, US, have been working on
a new way to make iPods, PDAs, cameras and other gadgets save power while
also looking cool. Their lengthy patent application reveals how to make a
screen light up and activate its touch-sensitive controls only when a finger
comes close.
The screen has a built-in capacitive sensor and when a finger comes to
within about 10 millimetres, the electrical capacitance changes and trips a
finely tuned circuit. The device then wakes from sleep mode, lights up its
screen and displays a menu of touch sensitive controls. When the finger
moves away again, the screen stays on for a preset period of time, after
which it shuts down again to conserve power.
And, because the sensor relies on a capacitive effect, the device can sit
happily inside a pocket without being accidentally activated or waking up
when its touch sensitive keys are brushed or pressed. It will only come back
to life only when the owner's finger, or hand, gets close.
Read the full Apple proximity sensor patent application.
Aircraft fire-quenching
Military aircraft keep their fuel tanks topped up with pure nitrogen to
prevent fire. But these systems have to pump gas at high speeds to keep pace
with the rapid pressure changes that occur with climbs and dives. The
hardware needed has always been too bulky, expensive and power-hungry for
commercial airliners – even though they are now at increased risk of onboard
fire from a terrorist bomb or rocket attack.
Inventor Philip Jones from Florida, US, claims to have come up with a
compact, low cost alternative that simply siphons off nitrogen from waste
air drawn from an aircraft's engines.
Hot air is first bled off from a turbine and partially cooled by a heat
exchanger that uses cold air from outside. The now-warm air is then passed
through a carbon filter that gets rid of any hydrocarbons before being fed
into a tangle of ultra thin polymer fibres that let oxygen and nitrogen in
the warm air pass through at different rates.
The oxygen is vented off, leaving nitrogen-rich air which can be fed into
the cargo bays and fuel tanks to quench fires before they can take hold. The
turbine air, the inventors say, is already oxygen-depleted, under pressure
and hot – all of which helps separation in the tangled-fibre filter.
Since airliners climb and descend slowly, causing only gradual pressure
changes in the tanks, the relatively slow-acting nitrogen system should work
without any need for a complex pumping system.
Read the full aircraft fire-quenching patent application.
For more than 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled through the world's weird and
wonderful patent applications, uncovering the most exciting, bizarre or even
terrifying new ideas. Read previous Invention columns, including:
Smart-card DVDs, smart night scope, laser microphone, triple-standard DVD,
ultimate body armour, Long-range stunner, tongue-o-vision, jellyfish
injections, Flesh-burn sensor, fire-escape tubes, VoIP mangling, in-flight
rearming, sense that fat, Designer speakers, throw-away parachutes,
password-protected bullets, spinning touchdown, palmtop Feng Shui, Origami
gadgets, mile-high showers, Hydrogen fuel balls, human cannonballs, the riot
slimer, the bomb jammer, Apple's all-seeing screen, the TV-advert enforcer,
the wing-sprouting drone, the drink-driver arm scanner, laser spark plugs,
remote-controlled implants,the "I've been shot" gun, the snore zapper, the
guitar phone, explosive-eating fungus, viper vision, exploding ink, the
moody media player, the spy-diver killer, preventing in-flight interference,
the inkjet-printer pen, sonic watermarks, the McDownload, hot-air plane,
landmine arrows, soldiers obeying odours, coffee beer, wall-beating bugging,
eyeball electronics, phone jolts, personal crash alarm, talking tooth, shark
shocker, midnight call-foiler, burning bullets, a music lover's dream, magic
wand for gamers, the phantom car, phone-bomb hijacking, shocking airport
scans, old tyres to printer ink and eye-tracking displays.
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10356-invention-microwaveoven-gun.html