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Killer cellphone and Kyte

I decided to check out the new web video posting service, Kyte.com tonight. To do my premier test, I took an MPEG video that I had lying around and uploaded it to their service. It was pretty straightforward, and I was also able to add a viewer poll to the video. I wish that I could pop the poll up at the end, I don't like it covering the video, but the service is new, and I didn't tinker with it much... This video is from a email that circulated in late 2000 and shows a Yogoslavian or Croatian made four chamber .22 caliber gun. It is encased in a chassis resembling a mobile phone and buttons on the keypad are used to fire the rounds. Note that these have not been found on U.S. soil, only Eastern Europe, and airport screeners have been trained to look for these weapons. This story is really only a test, but I wanted to throw a gadget into it that would make you think twice about why things like this even make their way out of people's minds and into the world.

Goodbye cars- Hello high-rolling SUVs.

Hi, I’m Dave Mathews – The Gadget Guy, and this is Tech Talkback number 3 goodby cars, hello high-rolling SUVs. Tech Talkback on Anchor Free and Spotify Podcasts If you drive in any city, it should be no surprise to you that SUVs are taking over the roads of America. If you’re in the Midwest, where I am from, or of course, our largest state of Texas, those roads are all about trucks. In fact, the number 1 vehicle in the USA isn’t even a car, it’s the Ford F150 which starts just under $30,000 dollars. Ford shipped more than 900,000 trucks in 2018, with the Chevy Silverado and Dodge Ram at just over a half-million produced EACH. Even the police forces of America have gotten away from the Ford Crown Victoria’s and have a Police Interceptor Utility Vehicle which now amounts to 80-percent of those fleet sales. Ford Police Interceptor SUV Most of the F150 owners are corporates and organizations, using them as work trucks. ...

The Tesla Cybertruck pre-sells 150,000, make that 250,000 upon announcement!

I’m Dave Mathews and this is the text version of the Podcast on the 2021 Tesla Cybertruck from November 30, 2019. Tech Talkback on Anchor Free and Spotify Podcasts What looks like a cross between a 70’s Lotus and a door-stop, its construction was inspired by the DeLorean and has fender flares from the Lamborghini LM002, oh and probably makes a Humvee cringe in fear? Lambo's 1980's LM002 It’s Elon Musk’s latest foray into the electric car, I mean truck market, and it’s called the Cybertruck. Elon says this physically hauls more than a F-150 and preverbally hauls in a zero-to sixty time which bests a 911. The Cybertruck and Bond Lotus that inspired it He even towed a F-150 sliding in reverse (under its own power attempting to go forward) in a promotional stunt, which was an easy traction vs torque feat due to the heavier chassis on a Cybertruck than the F-150’s aluminum & lack of battery mass. Look for a rematch on this to...

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