As seen in "MythBusters: James Bond Special I."Before James Bond sets out to fight drug lords in Live and Let Die, gadget guy Q arms him with a double-duty watch. The theory was that the time piece could emit an electromagnetic field strong enough to divert a bullet heading toward 007.Although Bond never puts the high-tech trinket to that use in the movie, the mythbusters built … [Read more...]

The growing demand of wireless communication devices has taxed radio spectrum, resulting in a need to find alternatives. Researchers are fine-tuning technologies that use standard lighting equipment to cheaply transmit high-speed data streams wirelessly, even while the equipment appears to be producing nothing more than normal illumination. Generally, the technologies rapidly … [Read more...]

Storms are brewing about 93 million miles away, and if one of them reaches Earth, it could knock out communications, scramble GPS and leave thousands without power for weeks to months. It’s what's known as a solar storm, a flurry of charged particles that erupts from the sun. Under the right conditions, solar storms can create extra electrical currents in Earth's magnetosphere, … [Read more...]