Spy Equipment, Gadgets, & Gear

Kim Jong-il's personal shopper talks about the time he spent buying arms, spy gadgets and cars for the North Korean dictator

WHITBY — To some it’s just a beat up old building that needs to be torn down. If that ever happens, they will be tearing down a piece of Canadian history because the spy stories these walls could tell would make Ian Fleming blush.

Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation recently announced the creation of a new mobile phone that could allow prying bosses to keep tabs on every movement of their staff. Do you think such gadgets invade the privacy of a person and violate the basic human rights?

Anthony Horowitz is on his soapbox. He's adamant he doesn't want to be there – he's been forced to step on to it in outrage at the way children are treated these days. Now he is there, though, he might as well get a few things off his chest.

It might seem obvious to the contrary, but we actually don’t have any hard data that we’re not completely and totally alone in the universe. Space is unaccountably vast, and physics hems us in, so we haven’t been visited, and telescopes simply aren’t strong enough to spy alien dolphins playing in Andromeda’s methane seas. We [...]

Every year, dozens of (seemingly) rational people take the (some might say) not entirely rational decision to spend £28,545 – more, indeed, than the average British salary – on sending their children to school. Don't they, one wonders, realise that school is free in this country? Perhaps not. Either way, Harrow School can hardly be short of demand. It currently educates some 800 boys, all of ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The US military is studying the feasibility of a system that could allow them to accurately navigate in enemy underground tunnels, an environment in which GPS does not work.