"Some heavy big trucks being dropped from a military plane in the middle of the night," says the YouTube description, "huge machines, being launched at incredible speed!" Indeed. I love the faces of those soldiers waiting to jump after the trucks:
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The Aviationist‘s reader Bjørn Broten found these two shots of the Exint, a pod designed to carry special forces and wounded soldiers in and out the battlefield—attached to the wing of Harrier jets or Apache helicopters. Imagine that ride. People were joking yesterday, but if you want to see how this may feel, take a look at this video.
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Because riding a bicycle down a steep mountain road after it just rained isn’t crazy enough, Eskil Ronningsbakken wanted to up the crazy by doing the whole ride backwards. So yes, he was balancing himself, steering, braking, making sharp turns, veering away from cars and zooming down the mountain while facing the completely opposite direction on a wet freaking road.
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What really sucks about losing your phone—besides losing the phone—is that you also lose a whole bunch of your data. But to help ease that pain, a iPhone thief in China copied down a list of all his victim’s contacts (by hand!) and returned it to its rightful owner. All 1,000 of them.
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I don’t even know what this is. It’s not as batshit insane as McAfee’s guide to uninstalling McAfee Antivirus
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Solidalliance has started selling again the funny earphone series “Crazy Earphone” on April 22. It ended production a couple years ago but has made a comeback by popular demand.
A few years ago we wrote about these and here we go again. As we noted, they’re not the ultimate in sound performance but sometimes you need something a little bit different…
There are 4 models this time around: Banana, Ikura (salmon roe sushi), Katana (Japanese sword), and Kinoko (mushrooms). Put the the Katana model on, it will look like a katana penetrates your head and the blade is popped out of your ear. 
Weight is 15-19 g. All are 2,000 yen.
Though patents often never amount to anything, we sincerely hope this wacky one from Samsung does. It’s an approved idea for a portable music player that also contains keys and motion detectors to let it function as a “musical instrument,” too. While listening to that epic jam, you could play along by pressing keys on the side of the device as if you were fingering a guitar’s fretboard. You’d be able to change position on the “guitar neck” by moving the player back and forth, and a motion detector on the side would sense the fingers on your other hand as you strum chords or pluck out a solo. Your GarageBand-style noodling, along with the original music would all blare through a speaker and amp combo on the device, to the amusement / horror of your friends. That’s assuming Samsung ever builds one, of course — but if not, our John Q. Engadget will be the first name on a petition to get it to market.
Filed under: Misc, Handhelds, Samsung
Source: USPTO
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I’m sure your mother taught you not to steal when you were a kid and even as you were growing up. But guys, if you really had to steal, then be smart about it and avoid stealing stuff from people who have highly infectious diseases, will you?
Aside from the fact that you could get infected, don’t you think it’s a little too mean to be stealing from people who are too sick to notice that you’re swiping their phones from their bedside table?
That’s what one Ugandan man did recently and he’s going to be paying for it dearly. After stealing the phone from a quarantined patient who’s got Ebola, the thief was subsequently admitted to the hospital himself because he also got infected. The patient who he stole from reported that his phone was missing shortly before he died.
If Karma’s as big a b#tch as people say she is, then the thief might end up sharing the same fate as his victim. The sad thing? The phone’s estimated to be worth about $23 (USD). (And even if it were worth millions, it still can’t compensate for the life of a human being.)
Now this is just sad.
[via Geekologie]
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