Bots, bombs, and weird science: The zaniest tech stories of 2009
From iPhone app trouble to Stephen Colbert toilets and levitating mice, the high-tech way-out-there machine was at its best this year
By Michael Cooney | Network World
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The wackiest tech stories of 2009
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Super car aims to rocket past 1,000 mph
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Do you come here often?
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Will Twitter for job
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No poo in my space pot
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Colbert loses NASA toilet
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The Borg lives?
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The father of all bombs
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Air Force: Future drones can make their own attack decisions
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Beer, bras, and cows, must be science
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Programmable bombs
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Lean, mean, and teeny-weeny fighting machines
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Killer asteroids getting free pass on NASA's watch?
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The airborne military laser
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Space junk
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Texas-sized identity theft
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Colossal spy airships get real
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Turkey poo and lights too
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The shape-shifting bot
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Smart robot that hunts for its own food
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VMware exec to the woodshed
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Baby Shaker
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Going up? Way up
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Mighty Mouse redux?
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Flying car
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The robot armada
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Super car aims to rocket past 1,000 mph
It looks like something NASA would aim at the sky and launch into orbit but no, it's a car. And by the time its builders' blast it across a desert in South Africa next year, they hope to set the land speed record by going well over 1,000 mph. Known as the Bloodhound, the car is propelled by three engines a Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine, a hybrid rocket and a third engine that just pumps fuel to the other two. The combination should produce somewhere in excess of 135,000 horsepower, the Bloodhound group states.
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