Technology Mashup

Not quite sure how velocity of a pointy projective can be adequately tailored with any certainty. Can you imagine the court case - "your Honour, the gun was set to wound and must have been faulty!". Um!

Toy rocket inspires variable-speed bullets - The technology behind liquid-hydrogen-propelled rockets is being used to make guns that can switched from "wound" to "kill"

 

IBM Joins the Lockheed Martin Team for FBI's Next Generation Identification Program - Lockheed Martin today announced that IBM will join its industry team to develop and maintain the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -- the new multi-modal, state-of-the-art biometrics system to be used by state, local and federal authorities.