yellow jacket stun gun case for iphone

yellow jacket is a case that transforms the iPhone 4 & 4S into that 650,000-volt stun gun you've always needed.

scheduled to hit the US market in fall 2012 the case is advertised as being able to 
easily stop an aggressive male attacker, and ready for use in less than two seconds. 
its designer seth froom, a former military policeman came up with the product after 
being robbed in his home at gunpoint.

what is the demand for such a hostile product you might ask? well, yellow jacket 
has managed to receive over 100,000 USD worth of backing on the crowd-funding 
website indiegogo which means that there must be quite a few people out there 
who feel the need to transform their phone into a weapon.


detail of the stun gun nodes 

the iPhone's designers could never have conceived half of the the weird and wonderful accessories 
that have been designed for use with the iPhone since its launch, but even in the name of self defense 
a stun gun seems a bit much, doesn't it?

Now You Can Buy a $250,000 Nail Polish

Remember that time when everyone got all freaked out about thatsnakeskin pedicure that cost $300? Well, get ready to completely lose it, because we just got a press release for the “most expensive nail polish in the world.”

That title was previously held by Models Own, which produced a $130,000 bottle (featuring a 24-carat gold, diamond-encrusted lid) back in 2010. However, the self-professed “king of black diamonds,” Azature, has doubled that figure. A bottle of black nail polish containing a whopping 267 carats of black diamonds in the actual polish will go for $250,000. Yikes. You won’t be able to just walk into Duane Reade and buy this sucker, however–only one bottle of the stuff will be produced.

For those of us who can’t afford a quarter of a million dollars for a manicure, Azature is offering a $25 version (see, now doesn’t $25 nail polish sound downright cheap in comparison?) containing one measly black diamond. You’ll be able to pick it up in LA at Fred Segal starting this month.

Estepona Town Hall sacks 176 municipal workers

The news was given on Wednesday by the Councillor for Personnel, Pilar Fernández-Figares Estepona Town Hall has sacked 176 municipal workers. The PP Councillor for Personnel, Pilar Fernández-Figares, announced on Wednesday that the 176 workers are victims of the ERE Employment Regulation which the Town Hall put forward in June. The workers will be compensated with 2.5 million € and they will be given their ‘finiquito payments of 408,000 € between them. Pilar Fernández-Figares said one they were sacked the Town Hall will start to work on a new ‘training program for the reinsertion of the sacked workers’.

BMW to sell luxury cars for less online

HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS TODAY

Grabbing a cup of coffee    Dining out at your favourite restaurant   Spending some time at the museum      Meeting at a popular fast food centre        Relaxing at the beach     Going to a game          Going out on a date       Taking a drive around town I am thankful I belong to another generation  !!!!   “It’s become appallingly clear that our Technology has surpassed our Humanity” -- Albert Einstein

Tattoos are permanent reminders of temporary feelings

'It's wisest to pick someone whom you cannot break up with or divorce.' Photograph: Gary Powell/Getty Images

Tattoos are permanent reminders of temporary feelings – at least if you believe the report in Thursday's Daily Mail, which looked at "embarrassing" matching couple tattoos – designs that complement or complete each other across two, romantically involved bodies.

Yet there are millions of people who feel no embarrassment about the tattoos they share with their friends, lovers and even exes. Moreover, as with most perceived "new trends" in tattooing, this practice is one with a history far older than the current generation; it's a phenomenon that provides both an insight into human beings' fundamental relationships with their own bodies and the bodies and lives of those close to them.

 

Tattoos have been used as markers of association for probably as long as human beings have walked the earth, to mark tribal affiliations, regimental membership in the military, membership of fraternal orders such as the masons or US college Greek letter groups, and to signify gang membership.

The most common of these types of affiliative tattoos, though, is marking an attachment to a loved one. There's an old adage in tattooed circles that suggests getting your lover's name tattooed on you is a sure kiss of death for that relationship, and it's an old gag too: Norman Rockwell's famous 1944 Saturday Evening Post cover painting, The Tattooist, shows a salty sailor in the tattooist's chair, having yet another name added to an arm already full of the crossed-out names of past paramours. Even earlier, a cartoon in Punch from 1916 shows a "fickle young thing" – a well-turned-out young woman, as it happens – revisiting her tattooist to seek an amendment to the ornamental crest tattoo on her arm as she has, euphemistically, "exchanged into another regiment".

 

None of this seems to have affected the long-standing popularity of having names or symbols tattooed to commemorate couples' love and bond. Magazines in the 1920s reported the latest fad for newlyweds was getting matching tattooed wedding rings; preserved tattooed skins in the Wellcome Collection from the late 19th century feature names and portraits of lovers; studies of tattoos in the American navy in the 18th century reveal a large percentage of seamen of the period bore tattoos of the names of women; even Christian pilgrims in the 16th century were recorded to have borne the names of their wives on their skins, as tokens or identificatory marks; and records attest to romantic tattooing even in ancient Rome – St Basil the Great (329-380) is said to have condemned the tattooing of a lover's name that he observed on someone's hand. While I'd certainly never advocate getting a permanent mark of your relationship too hastily, it does seem that the instinct to inscribe a permanent token transcends the ages. Caveat amator.

 

Single tattoos that span multiple bodies appear to be a more recent phenomenon, however. In 1977, New York-based tattoo artist Spider Webb undertook what was probably the first conceptual art project to use tattooing, in a piece called X-1000, in which he tattooed single, small Xs on to 999 individuals, and, as a culmination, one large X on the final, 1,000th skin, conceived as one contiguous work. This tattoo, potentially spanning thousands of miles at any one time, was, Webb said, "the largest tattoo ever done at any point in history". In 2000, as the culmination to a performance art project begun in 1998 designed to highlight the horrific lives and plights of the homeless and hungry in Mexico City, Santiago Sierra produced his piece 160cm Line Tattooed on Four People, a single black line tattooed across the backs of prostitutes in exchange for wraps of heroin, as a symbol of their desperation, interdependence, and utter powerlessness. Sierra would later remark: "You could make this tattooed line a kilometre long, using thousands and thousands of willing people." In 2003, author Shelley Jackson famously published her short story Skin on the bodies of 2095, one tattooed word per person. These tattoos bring together strangers in common cause.

 

My favourite set of matching tattoos, though, are probably the ongoing collection of work worn by twins Caleb and Jordan Kilby, tattooed with matching work by influential and extraordinarily talented New York-based artist Thomas Hooper. If you must get matching tattoos with someone, it's wisest to pick someone whom you cannot break up with or divorce, and to get the work carried out by a tattoo artist who will produce a piece of work that will stand the test of time on its own terms.

Latvian company creates leather bound Ferrari

Freeze Fresh Herbs in Oil to Preserve Them

Have a few fresh herbs sitting around that you won't get to using before they turn? Sure, you can freeze them in water or dry them out, but if you know you'll use them relatively quickly, you can add a few weeks to their life without damaging their potency by freezing them in oil instead. We've shown you how to make simply syrups with them, and how to use sea salt to dry them, but if you have some lovely herbs you want to use, but won't get to before they turn brown, consider dropping them in an ice cube tray, filling up the cubes with olive oil (or any other oil of your choice, as long as it freezes nicely), and popping them in the freezer. When you're ready to fry some potatoes, for example, pop out a couple of rosemary oil cubes—you'll need the oil for the pan anyway, and the rosemary will be right at home. Need some oil in a baking dish or crock pot for a few chicken breasts? Grab a frozen sage oil cube. The sky's the limit. The only thing to note is that with some herbs have a shorter shelf life when frozen in oil than in water (like garlic, for example), so this won't beat drying if you're looking to keep your herbs fresh for months and months. It will, however, work for weeks on end, and if you freeze them, pop them out of the ice cube trays and put them into zippered baggies, they'll keep even longer. Then, the next time you need oil for a recipe, you can add a little fresh flavor at the same time. Hit the link below for even more oil-freezing tips, and some tips on which herbs take well to freezing and which don't.

mclaren 12C spider convertible

'MP4-12C spider' by mclaren

closing the hard-top

the raising of the roof frees 52 liters of space for storage. in 2013, vehicle lift will be available as an option, allowing for the '12C spider' to be raised 
in the front and rear for improved ground clearance, up to 40mm (1.5") at the front and 25mm (1") at the rear.

the MP4-12C will be launched in 'volcano red', one of 17 exterior paint finishes currently available for the '12C' and '12C spider'. 
first deliveries to customers are planned for november 2012. 

closed top

3/4 top view

 

3/4 rear view

 

top view

interior view

specifications: 

0-62 mph (0-100 kph) : 3.1 sec 
0-100 mph (0-161 kph) : 6.1 sec
0-124 mph (0-200 kph) : 9.0 sec
¼ mile (400m) : 10.8 sec at 134 mph (216 kph) 

engine configuration: V8 twin turbo, 7 speed automatic

George Washington's copy of US constitution sells for $9.8m

Portrait of George Washington, whose personal copy of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights fetched $9.8m at auction. Photograph: Stock Montage/Getty Images

ASTON MARTIN ONE-77

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ASTON MARTIN ONE-77

Car No.40 of 77 Made.

The Client is seeking 1.2 Million Sterling for the Car.

The Cars were originally sold by Aston Martin for 1Million, plus costs.

Equivalent cars are available for 2 Million Sterling – 2.7 Million Dollars.

We are Offering the Car at 1.4 Million, but it should be considerably more.

Our Client wishes for the Sale to be Confidential, and approaching clients will need to provide documents

Aston Martin has announced the return of the Vanquish. It’s a lighter, faster, more powerful and more efficient replacement for the DBS.

Rare car buried under a Gloucestershire shed wins an award

A rare two-seater car found buried under a cowshed in Gloucestershire has won a Best Vintage Car award.All the parts of the 1928 MG MK IV Sports car were found in 1999 on a farm "carefully dismantled" and laid in the ground under two inches of concrete.

Fred Body, from Cheddar in Somerset, has spent over a year painstakingly rebuilding the early MG.

He said: "It's weird really - most of it was there and most of it was as sound as a pound."

According to the Early MG Society, only 135 examples of this model were made in 1928 and this car is the sole survivor in the country that displays the correct coachwork.

"When it was found it was completely taken apart, laid out flat and covered in gravel and one or two inches of concrete," said Mr Body, a car enthusiast who bought the parts when the owner put them up for sale.

Wartime secret

"I think what must have happened was the war was coming and someone thought 'they're not taking my car for scrap'.

"They carefully took it apart and buried it thinking they would come back and put it together again."

All the major parts of the car were found preserved under the concrete base of a cowshed

It was only when the shed was pulled down and the floor dug up that the car was discovered with all its identification including Guarantee plate and original number plates.

"Some of the original leather from the seats and paint work was there so we could colour match it as near as possible," said Mr Body.

"But some of the aluminium had corroded where I think the concrete had cracked and urine from the cow house had got in.

"And all the instruments were missing - they probably adorned someone's fireplace - so they were the most difficult to find."

At the end of April the resurrected car won the Best Vintage Car award at the Bristol Classic Car Show.

A spokesman for the Early MG Society said: "There is no history on this car until 1999 when it was miraculously 'discovered'.

"It is now one of the few genuine MGs that has come to light in the last 25 years - it's been a real "from the ground up" restoration."

Some astonishingly brave people went in to tackle the blaze at the Williams garage in Barcelona head on

Some astonishingly brave people went in to tackle the blaze at the Williams garage in Barcelona head on, in an environment that could have ignited fuel drums or gas canisters, while others helped injured people out of harms way.

This shocking drama unfolded outside my mobile office at European races, called RT3: Race Truck 3.

When fans see the F1 paddock on TV they can see all the team trucks backed up to the garages and it's these trucks that house many of the critical functions of the teams — offices, storage and workbenches.

In Barcelona RT3 was parked with its rear doors facing the exit of our garage composites and consumables area.

This was adjacent to the Williams F1 Team and partly separated inside the garage from the team affectionately known as Willys by a wall, wire mesh and plastic sheeting.

DANGER ZONE ... Fire spreads at the back of the Williams garage

I was in my office in RT3 around one hour after the race had finished and Pastor Maldonado had recorded the first win for Sir Frank Williams' team in eight years, working on our post-race report while listening on the radio to the final day of the Premier League football season back in the UK.

Outside RT3 there was the usual paddock hubbub, more noisy than normal as Williams team members celebrated as they were packing up their garage.

Suddenly, above the normal background sounds, I started hearing raised voices barking orders and a couple of screams.

I stuck my head out of my office door, looking straight back at the entrance to the Williams garage and saw thick clouds of black smoke pouring out, and people from different teams all directing fire extinguishers and fire hoses on to the fire that was raging inside the Willys garage.

FAMILY MATTERS ... All the F1 teams worked together to tackle the blaze

Looking to the right I saw a number of my team-mates sprinting out of the entrance of the composites and consumables area of our garage, and more heading towards the same entrance with fire extinguishers.

Within seconds the air was engulfed in acrid black smoke. Visibility was limited and people from a number of teams started emerging from the garages covered in dust, smoke and the powder that had been directed at the fire in the garage.

It quickly became clear that the fire had started in an area of the Williams garage adjacent to our composites area and the flames had immediately ripped through the plastic sheeting separating our two garages and spread throughout an area where perhaps 40 of our guys were packing up.

AFTERMATH ... The wreck of Bruno Senna's car can be seen inside the Williams garage

They all made it out of the garage safely. One of our truckies was carried out by two team mates, suffering from smoke inhalation, and another team member emerged from the smoke clutching a very swollen hand.

Both were immediately taken to hospital.

Within minutes of it starting the fire was out. Unseen by me, the rescue efforts on our side of the garage were being mirrored in the pitlane and the blaze was being tackled from both sides by team members from every team up and down the pitlane, as well as local circuit staff and members of the media who had been recording the post-race celebrations in the Williams garage.

For a number of those who helped out this was not their first F1 fire. But for me, this was the first time I have been so close to something so potentially life threatening and I am humbled by the way the men and women of my sport responded.

F1 provides thrills and spills but it is a dangerous environment. Seeing how the paddock acted as one shows me how lucky I am to work with real heroes.

Poland's Arrinera supercar hits the road with 650 HP, $160K list price

There are a handful of countries where you'd expect most any supercar to come from. Italy, Germany, England... and even these United States have produced their fare share, and there've been a handful from Japan. Even France and Sweden have produced some notables. But Poland?

Hardly the first country that would come to mind, but the folks behind Arrinera Automotive aim to fix that. We first reported last year on the supercar the Polish outfit has been developing, and now they've released a whole slew of details – including specifications and pricing.

The as-yet unnamed vehicle (aside from the Arrinera marque, anyway) is powered by a 6.2-liter V8 that's been supercharged up to 650 metric horsepower (641 by our measures) and 605 pound-feet of torque, driving through a Graziano gearbox for a 3.2-second sprint to 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) and a claimed 340 km/h (211 mph) top end.

Lee Noble – the talented engineer behind supercars marketed under the Ultima, Ascari, Rossion, Fenix andNoble names – has set up the suspension, with 380-millimeter brakes providing the stopping power up front and 350-millimeter discs in the back. The 1300-kilogram (2866-pound) package is made up of a high-strength steel frame with bodywork that's carbon-intensive and similar in appearance to a Lamborghini, but that's no bad thing.

Production is slated to begin later this year, with pricing starting at £100,000 (about $160,000 at current exchange rates). Scope it out in the extensive and fresh gallery of high-resolution images above.

Porsche Boxster, Boxster S launched

Porsche has launched its next-generation Boxster roadster, boasting reduced weight and a longer wheel base for improved performance. The next-generation release of the Boxster open-top roadster boasts a 35kg weight reduction, 60mm longer wheelbase, widened track on both the front and rear axles, and larger wheels and tyres. Combined with a new flat-six engine, the Boxster S is able to lap the Nürburgring-Nordschleife track in 7:58 minutes, twelve seconds faster than the outgoing model. The revised design shows clear inspiration from the 550 Spyder and 718 RS, while also combining features of more modern Porsche models including the Carrera GT and the upcoming 918 Spyder. A fully electric hood opens on an interior with increased space over the outgoing model while the Carrera GT-inspired centre console boasts improved ergonomics. The new flat-six engines feature direct petrol injection, with the mid-mounted power unit in the Boxster delivering 265hp from a 2.7-litre displacement - 10hp more than the 2.9-litre engine it replaces. A 3.4-litre engine available in the Boxster S boasts 315hp, an improvement of 5hp on the outgoing model. Both models include a manual six-speed gearbox, with a seven-speed dual-clutch Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) transmission available as an option. Using the PDK transmission and Sport Chrono Package option, the 2.7-litre Boxster sprints to 62mph from a standing start in just 5.5 seconds, while the larger-engined Boxster S hits the same speed in just 4.8 seconds. The Boxster also boasts fuel economy of 36.7mpg with carbon dioxide emissions of 180g per kilometre driven, with the Boxster S hitting 35.3mpg on the combined cycle with 188g/km carbon dioxide emissions. The Boxster boasts Alcantara interior, 18in alloy wheels, automatic stop/start and sports mode, remote control hood operation, audio CD player with 7in colour touch-screen control, a universal audio interface with MP3 connectivity and a three-year warranty. The Boxster S build on that spec with 19in alloy wheels, partial leather interior and bi-xenon headlights in addition to the more powerful engine. The Boxster starts at £37,589 on the road, with the Boxster S costing £45,384.

eBay Find of the Day: Neil Armstrong's '67 Corvette

But what if we told you that Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, the hero of the NASA Apollo program, and by all accounts a genuine good guy, was the first owner of the car? How much would that make it worth? Better hope your guess has six digits in it, because bidding on eBay Motors for this derelict but potentially highly collectible car has already shot past $120,000 – and has yet to meet the seller's reserve price.

Before readying the checkbook, however, we might suggest actually reading the seller's ALL CAPS description. It's a wonderful tale that starts with the car being provided by Rathman Chevrolet, the famed dealership that leased Corvettes to astronauts for $1 per year. A NASA employee allegedly bought the car after Armstrong turned it in and the seller claims he's hounded that NASA employee for 30 years trying to buy the Corvette, but it was only two months ago that he claimed his prize. There's a whole lot more to the story, including buying a carburetor in Texas and wanting to turn the car into a National Corvette Restorers Society "Survivor."

The bottom line, however, is that the seller is now trying to flip the Chevrolet, without much in the way of evidence that the car belonged to Armstrong, at least that's presented in the eBay Motors auction. Perhaps we're just being skeptical, but before spending over $100,000 on a car for which the majority of the purchase price is for its provenance, we'd like to see more in the way of authentication than one Protect-O-Plate photo. Since Neil Armstrong is still alive, we hope that whoever winds up restoring this Corvette does a more thorough job of vetting and presenting its history.