Geek Not Nerd

What on earth would make this Stratocaster clone worth well over a million dollars? As you can see in the pic above, the electric guitar was stuffed with lots of cocaine, that’s what. We former musicians are well aware that the gigsters always have the best blow, but this guitar player went overboard when he decided to fly from Costa Rica to Rome with his drastically modified Squier ax in tow. Too bad The Man noticed a bit of telltale powdery residue poking out of a conspicuous spot on this git-box. We have another pic of the guitar before it was dismantled, looking perfectly innocent.

We’re not sure what’s wrong with the old drugs-up-the-anus technique, but a Malaysian businessman tried to smuggle 2 kg worth of heroin inside two laptops. Where he went wrong was using two incredibly old laptops instead of something current, and well, looking suspicious while he did his smuggling thing. The airport officials took his stuff, X-rayed it, and found five plastic packs with said heroin inside. Why this cheap bastard couldn’t spring for some gigantic Alienware laptops that are already heavy is anyone’s guess.

shirts that will generate electricity when the wearer moves to power cell phones

Power walking may never be the same again. Australian researchers are developing shirts that will generate electricity whenever the wearer moves. The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
“The shirts would directly power mobile telephones, portable music players and other small electrical appliances.
Dr Best, of the CSIRO’s Energy Technology Division, predicted the first power shirts – or flexible integrated energy devices – could be developed within five years.
The secret behind the idea involves piezo electrical materials. “Whenever you bend or deform piezo electrical material it creates an electrical charge.”
If a shirt could be woven from the fabric, the constant vibration would “produce electricity as you move”.
The power would be fed into flexible batteries that would also be woven into the shirt. Appliances, including mobile phones and palm pilots could then be plugged into the shirt.
The technology could revolutionise appliances such as mobile phones. By adding printed flexible circuit boards, they, too, could be woven into clothing.
“We see no reason why you couldn’t do that,” said Dr Best, saying the day may not be far off when people could make phone calls simply by talking into their collars.

Tighty Whitey Costume

Item No: 25704 Price: $34.98

Hey, Homey…aren’t you showing a little too much of those undies? Take a hint, Home Boy: your tightey whities don’t cut it with the baggy look! Unique one-piece design includes authentic athletic top, real denim pants and very noticeable skivies. One size fits most adults.

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Tassle Twirling Tessie

Item No: 23284 Price: $49.98

Live On Stage, it’s YOU dressed as the outrageous Tassle Twirling Tessie! Shake your bootie while twirling those tassles! Lightweight costume slips on easily and is guaranteed to get laughs and maybe even a few extra dollars. One size fits most adults. Fan, gloves, and boa not included. Deluxe Afro Wig sold separately: #20296

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Wired has a write-up of a new storage technology developed at Arizona State University that could produce flash thumb drives capable of storing terabytes of data in the near future, that also happens to be cheaper and more energy efficient than flash memory. The new technology has been branded programmable metallization cell, and differs from present storage technologies in that it “creates nanowires from copper atoms the size of a virus to record binary ones and zeros.” It all sounds very interesting — if slightly too optimistic — to us, and we’ll get to find out relatively soon just how effective the new chips are: Arizona State’s business arm has licensed the technology to three companies, which may be ready to sell a product containing the chips within 18 months. Watch this space.

Posted Oct 27th 2007 11:28PM by Conrad Quilty-Harper