Gun Online From 3 D Printer

As the Gun Control issue is raging in the US, to do it techies have developed a Gun from 3 D printers from Computer files!

Gun from 3 D Printer.

A Gun developed by a group of techies from 3 D printers almost entirely from  3 D printers went Online.

Demo of the Gun.

 

 

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Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, an organization dedicated to making it easy for anyone to 3-D print their own gun. It’s the opening line of a video showcasing Defense Distributed’s successful employment of a 3-D printer to manufacture a plastic high-capacity ammo clip for an AR-15 rifle.

Wilson is namechecking Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s call for a “new conversation” on gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre. Wilson follows up his question by firing off a few rounds of ammunition, giving his handiwork an admiring look, and declaring: “Welcome to the age of the printed magazine.” The screen flashes a message: “Download your mag today.”

The 51-second video closes with Wilson eating a meal. An off-camera voice asks him: “So how does it taste?” His answer: “Tastes like Dianne Feinstein’s lunch.” It’s another anti-gun control broadside, a slam against the Democratic senator who plans to introduce legislation that would reinstate the ban on selling high-capacity ammunition magazines that existed from 1994 to 2004.

Wilson’s message could not be more blatant. In the age of cheap 3-D printers and open-source, easily downloadable design code, he is declaring that gun control is obsolete. So don’t even bother trying.”

How to make guns from 3 D Printer.

“But technologically, it’s still simple. That’s because the principle behind a gun isn’t too tricky: load a bullet into a reinforced tube, and whack the back of it hard. That’s an engineering problem street gangs in the 1950s managed to solve with wood, antenna housings and elastic bands, building “zip guns” to shoot at each other; and it’s also the basis for converted air rifles and cap guns. The difficult stuff – getting it to fire accurately, repeatedly and without jamming or blowing up in your face – is still a long way off for 3D printers. And even the best 3D-printed gun still relies on someone else to make the gunpowder.”

Sources.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/25/will_computers_kill_gun_control/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/3d-printer-gun-has-been-fired

 

See What You Can Not See Insect Camera

I recently posted an Article on ‘We Have more colors Than we See’.

I mentioned there that there are infinite colors and we see only seven because of our limitations.

I found an interesting article on the same subject to-day.

A new Digital Camera developed mimics Arthropods, has 180 Degree vision.

It provides the entire field of view. By contrast, our eyes can only see a narrow angle ahead of us, and the images they form are only sharp at the very center of our visual field.

Digital Camera, based on Insect’s Eyes.

“Arthropods—insects,spiders and their kin—have compound eyes, which consist of hundreds or thousands of individual units or ommatidia. Each one has its own lens and light detectors. They form separate images, which are then united in the brain. And since arthropods greatly outnumber all other animals, the vast majority of eyes are compound ones.

Now, John Rogers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a camera that mimics compound eyes. It might not have the same resolution as a state-of-the-art digital camera, but it compensates with many advantages that make it ideal for surveillance. Perhaps in the future, we’ll be watched by man-made flies on the walls.

Rogers chose to mimic apposition eyes—a type of compound eye where each ommatidium sees a narrow part of the insect’s visual field, effectively capturing just one pixel of a full image…

Compound eyes also have an almost infinite depth of field—that is, objects stay in focus regardless of how far they are from the eye. So, flies can clearly see something far and near objects at the same time, without having to adjust any lenses. And compound eyes are also exquisitely sensitive to movement, since their owners can compare the passage of shapes across different ommatidia.

Wide angles. Sharp focus at all distances. Sensitivity to movement. If you were building a surveillance camera, these are exactly the properties you’d want. Indeed, Rogers thinks that surveillance is an obvious application for his fly-eye design.”

Source:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/02/insect-eye-digital-camera-sees-what-you-just-did/

Now Incest App Video Demo

Living has become complex and so isolated (though the world has shrunk on the Internet) and sex between strangers have become a common and easy  that one might even bump into his close relatives..

Iceland faced this problem and recognized this as a Problem.

A Mobile Application has been developed to avoid bedding close relatives,unwittingly.

( you can do nothing about those who do so wittingly!)

The Story and Video Demo.

Avoiding incest in Iceland just got easier. A new app determines if hookups on the close-knit island nation are sharing too many roots in the family tree, News Of Iceland reports.

The “Islendingabók” (“Book of Icelanders”) app allows amorous users to tap into a bloodline registry that judges whether romance is advisable.

The app in action. The database it accesses has been active since the 1990s. Credit: SadEngineerStudios

The app’s slogan, “bump the app before you bump in bed,” invites would-be couples to bump their smartphones together for a verdict to prevent problems later…

The database, which draws from 1,200 years of genealogical info, has been around since 1997, according to the New York Daily News. Before the app was developed, couples in Iceland had to search the database by typing in their names and Icelandic ID numbers. In the heat of the moment, that might be difficult.

Now, all it takes is a phone kiss.

As previously reported, the possibility of romancing a too-close relative is relatively high in Iceland, given that the island has around 300,000 mostly native residents.

According to GlobalPost, a little verbal investigation also helps to avoid inbreeding. “Hverra manna ert þú?” (“Who are your people?”) is a common question exchanged..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/iceland-incest-app_n_3102152.html?utm_hp_ref=world

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Now a group of University of Iceland in Reykjavík students have taken it a step further and created an Android app to help end cousins from dating. NBC News reports:

When you tap phones with someone who has the app, it brings up an alert if the owners of the two phones share a grandparent. (Of course, if you don’t already know who you share a grandparent with, incest may be the least of your problems, but the team says it is looking into functionality for spotting common great grandparents, too.)

The app, called Sifjaspellsspillir translates to “Incest Destroyer.”

An iPhone counterpart is currently in production.

Ack:http://www.heavy.com/tech/2013/04/iceland-app-eliminates-incest/

 

Evade Face Recognition Camera. ‘Privacy Visor’

Cameras are used to read faces to recognize  and identify people.

 

While this has an important role to play in Security, there is this aspect of Privacy being intruded upon.

 

Japan has developed a Visor which confuses the Software used in the camera and makes it useless.

 

What would the security agencies do to counter this?

 

Story:

Privacy Visor

 

A pair of glasses dubbed a “privacy visor” has been developed to thwart hidden cameras using facial-recognition software.

The prototype spectacles have been designed by scientists at Tokyo’s National Institute of Informatics.

The glasses are equipped with a near-infrared light source, which confuses the software without affecting vision.

Law enforcers, shops and social networks are increasingly using facial-recognition software.

Prof Isao Echizen said: “As a result of developments in facial recognition technology in Google images, Facebook et cetera and the popularisation of portable terminals that append photos with photographic information [geotags]… essential measures for preventing the invasion of privacy caused by photographs taken in secret and unintentional capture in camera images is now required.”

The near-infrared light “appends noise to photographed images without affecting human visibility,” he said.

Shop mannequins

Prof Echizen said the glasses, which connect to a pocket power supply, would be reasonably priced, but there are some simpler alternatives.

Heavy make-up or a mask will also work, as will tilting your head at a 15-degree angle, which fools the software into thinking you do not have a face, according to an online guide produced by hacktivist group Anonymous.

In September, following a review by Ireland’s data protection commissioner, Facebook suspended its facial-recognition tool that suggested when users in Europe could be tagged in photographs.

In November, it emerged some shop mannequins were collecting data on shoppers using facial-recognition software.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21143017

 

 

Safety Against Rape, Smartphone Applications Women

Women need some safety applications when they go out.

 

There are Applications available compatible with Smartphones.

 

They can be used in times of Emergency

 

Some of them are.

Women Safety Application

“If you are a college student then this App is especially made for you. This App allows you to alert your friends and family and emergency responders like 911, along with that it also alerts campus police. With this App you can send alerts based on time. Say like, if you didn’t get to home in an hour then this OnWatch App inform your friends and others about your GPS location. You can download this App for iPhone and Android. It enables you a free 90 day trial subscription with .edu mail address and for others it offers 30 day free trial.

http://onwatchoncampus.com/

 

2.”Using this CircleOf6 App you can add 6 friends or family members so that they will be informed when you need it. This Application enables you to send a text message to your friends or family members with your current GPS location and a message like ‘Come and Get Me’. If you are low on balance then you can also send out a ‘call me’ message. It can be easily programmed to call selected national hotlines or local emergency numbers. And the good news is that it is Free for iPhone and Android Smartphones.

Link: http://www.circleof6app.com

 

3.FightBack, the women’s safety application, sends SOS alerts from your phone. FightBack uses GPS, SMS, location maps, GPRS ,email and your Facebook account to inform your loved ones in case you are in danger. Join us and help make our streets safer for women.
Write to us on support@fightbackmobile.com

 

4.By using this Redpanicbutton Application, it allows you to push a central button and generate a security alert, by doing this it will activate immediate contact with emergency services, it will also provide quick details of the current location and along with that it will automatically dials various emergency numbers and sending of panic messages via various communication channels like text message, mails and social networks like Facebook and Twitter. But this Android Free version is for only one panic contact so better buy a full version.

http://www.redpanicbutton.com/

 

The general complaint against these applications are  the unreliability of  3 G Services in India.

People suggest applications not using Internet is needed.

 

One may also use the Speed dial.

 

In some of the Applications the location is not specified to the receiver.

 

Would some one Link it to Google Maps?

 

I also recommend Pepper Spray Gun.

Pepper Spray Gun

 

Link: http://www.healthkart.com/product/knock-out-pepper-spray-key-ring-style/KNOCK001?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=hk_personalcare&gclid=CLbO0e3n7rQCFU966wodsWYABA