The active camo link is definitely a hoax. Following the link to the company's website reveals numerous misspellings and errors. It looks like it was written by a 12 year old.

Posted by: Brian at March 15, 2006 05:44 PM

I call HOAX on the invisibility invention. In the first picture with stealth 'OFF', the inventor is shown standing with a shadow extending outward from his right side. In the second photo, with stealth 'ON', there is no shadow. No matter what method of optical stealth, nothing would prevent a shadow from appearing on the opposite side of the wearer as the light source, short of a giant lcd screen that digitally removes it...which is not exactly ideal for use in the field.

Posted by: DS at March 15, 2006 05:31 PM

re: Guns to Guitars. This reminded me of the AK-47 magazine that was turned into an MP3 player. I guess it's hard to kill people when you're too busy rocking out.

re: "I've been shot" gun -- grammar nitpick on the original article, but I think it should be the "I've been fired" gun. As phrased, I was wondering if there was some kind of biometric sensor in it that detected when some traumatic occurrence happened to the weapon's operator. Although, to be fair, using "fired" or "discharged" instead presents possible confusion over whether the weapon or its operator just lost its job or left active duty.

Posted by: Edward Liu at March 15, 2006 01:49 PM