Not to cast the Central American country in a bad light, but given the drugs and cartels situation over there, security has deteriorated to an unbearable level for many of the common citizens. One company now aspires to make a difference by selling RFID tracking devices enabled by a GPS unit. The capsule shaped RFID implant is inserted in the fleshy folds of a client’s shoulder, allowing them to be tracked when kidnapped. But does it work?

What must be pointed out is that the most high-profile RFID user in Mexico was abducted a couple of years ago and still held by his kidnappers several months after. The interesting part is when they stormed his house on the fateful night of the abduction, the kidnappers surgically removed the RFID implant from their target. Naturally, this incident reeks of an inside job.

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We’re going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the new planet discovered Australian scientists should be named "Lucy” — because no other name seems right for a planet made of diamonds.

According to scientists at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing in Melbourne, Australia, the newfound planet measures an estimated 34,175 miles across — which makes it five times the size of Earth. And while that’s all well and good, it’s the planet’s composition that has everyone buzzing.

"We are very confident it has a density about 18 times that of water,” said study leader Matthew Bailes, whose team discovered the planet while using the radio telescope at Australia’s Parkes Observatory. "This means it can’t be made of gases like hydrogen and helium like most stars, but [must be made of] heavier elem ... Read more »

We have featured a few of these rubber band guns here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is based on the FN P90 submachine gun, and it was made by some Japanese guy.

The video below shows the rubber band FN P90 submachine gun in action, and from the looks of it, it would appear that this rubber band gun took some serious effort to make.

There really aren’t many details about it, or how it was made, it certainly looks pretty complicated from the photos and video.

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Drive featuring Ryan Gosling gets an international trailer.

Drive the action/thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston, and Christina Hendricks gets an international trailer. The film follows Gosling who is a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver at night. He gets involved with Brooks and gets double-crossed. Thus starts a revenge and redemption journey involving cars and a hammer. 

The trailer does have french subtitles if you find those things distracting you’ve been warned. 

Drive is due out on November 11th, 2011.

Questions arise after an unmanned Russian rocket landed in the Siberian forest five minutes after launch.

The decision to rely on other countries for manned space flight in the immediate future took a bit of a hit Wednesday, as an unmanned Russian rocket crashed just five minutes after liftoff en route to the International Space Station.

The rocket was intended to ferry an unmanned cargo ship to the ISS with supplies for the six crew members currently aboard the station. Instead of making the trek into outer space, the rocket and its cargo arced into the Siberian forest when one of the engines failed.

According to NASA space station manager Michael T. Suffredini, the ISS and its crew are currently in no danger, having been resupplied in July by the last of the US space shuttles. However, three crew members are scheduled to be replaced in S ... Read more »

Ever the free thinker, Steve Job, now Apple's chairman, has been spitting wit and wisdom for decades. We've singled out some of the most prescient statements he's ever made.

Steve Jobs is widely considered one of the greatest corporate leaders in recent history — a view we are seeing in full force this week, now that he has stepped down as Apple’s chief executive. Under his leadership, Apple grew to become the most valuable technology company in the world, delivering products that ushered in a new age of consumer technology, one in which we are constantly connected and endlessly entertained. It is because of his transformational leadership that he is so often labeled a genius. But it is also because of his skills as an orator, his radical ideas and his genuine wisdom about the future of technology that he remains so esteemed. Here, 11 ... Read more »

If you have lots of keys you need to keep organised and in a safe place this fantastically unique geeky RJ-45 Ethernet keychain rack could be the perfect solution. Especially if you have a few unwanted old RJ-45 Ethernet sockets just sitting around, gathering dust.

Its been created by Instructables user harari and shows how a few Ethernet ports can be put to good use, together with some coloured Ethernet cable to help identify the keys even easier.

Simply attached the Ethernet ports to the wall and then add keychain rings to RJ-45 cable connections to create the key hangers. Full instruction on making your very own can be found over on the Instructables website.

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Quite a sight , to be honest. Below is every single robot that has figured in movies for the past century. Movies and cartoons and TV shows to be specific. The challenge, however, is to spot Wall-E. That’s why it’s called Where’s Wall-E (get it?) We’ve already pinpointed where he is, but we’re not telling (there’s a hint after the jump.) On the other hand, his love interest Eva is in plain sight.

If you’re wondering who bothered creating this brain-torture, it’s none other than animator/artist Richard Sargent. The man is mad about robots from science fiction movies and has finally gone about assembling all of them in one canvass. A few familiar highlights are an ABC Warrior, a classic old school Autobot, Bender from Futurama, and R2D2 (of course.) The difficult part is spotting Wall-E. It takes a good dose of concentration to do so, but it’s worth a try. However, is the pic ... Read more »

An informative infographic has been created showing how speech recognition impacts our lives and how its being used to change and develop our world. The infographic has been created by Medical Transcription and shows the technology used behind  Automated Speech Recognition (ASR). Showing examples of areas we now take for granted and new areas that are currently under development like lie detection within banks and voice controlled applications.

Google has already invested heavily in ASR development and hopes to push out new service using the technology. The reason Google’s ASR system works so well when you use it, is because Google is currently storing every spoken or written search terms entered into its systems, explains the infographic. I wonder how many that actually is?

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