All the stories tagged with: accident
BlackBerry service interruption made roads safer
10/17/2011, While businesses and people had problems communicating and doing work over the past week due to the BlackBerry outage, at least there was something good to come out of it. According to reports from Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the three-day [...]
Another fire at Foxconn, no casualties reported
09/27/2011, If there’s one manufacturing plant that can’t seem to get enough of the press, it’s got to be Foxconn. Famous for manufacturing the iPhone and the iPad, but at the same time it is infamous for its workers’ harsh working [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 mistakenly exchanged at Best Buy
09/22/2011, About a week ago we reported that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 was up for pre-order at Best Buy. Unfortunately it was not specified as to when customers at Best Buy would be able to get their hands on the [...]
Cow squashes car after jumping over three foot fence
08/12/2011, Hey Diddle Diddle – this time around, the bovine in question did not make the leap over the moon, but somehow did defy the law of gravity to a certain degree by clearing a three foot fence, squashing a car [...]
Google’s self-driving car has its first accident
08/05/2011, Uh oh. Google’s driverless car, the self-driving Prius has encountered its first ever accident – according to a photograph sent in to Jalopnik by a tipster who spotted the accident somewhere nearby Google’s Mountain View California headquarters. The photograph shows [...]
Death app tells you about nearby deaths in your area
07/29/2011, Part of a ghost hunting team and looking for new places to explore? Wish there was an app for that? Well, you’re actually in luck. The folks over at MobileNationHQ recently came up with something called the Death app. As [...]
BMW Crash-Severity Algorithm Analyzes Potential Injuries
06/21/2011, It looks like BMW has been making the news quite a bit lately what with their app that analyzes your driving patterns to help build a better EV of tomorrow and now it looks like thanks to their algorithm that [...]
Fire breaks out in an Intel plant, Arizona
06/08/2011, Following the explosion that happened in Foxconn China a few weeks ago, another accident has broken out in a manufacturing plant – this time all the way on the other side of the world in an Intel plant in Arizona. [...]
The feds want black boxes in your cars too
05/24/2011, According to a report from Wired, federal officials will be announcing next month that black boxes will be mandatory in all cars. Yes, the very same black boxes used by investigators to recreate the last few moments of a plane before [...]
Robot fumbles with grenade and runs over it on accident
02/04/2011, This morning in San Francisco, a robot was called into a bomb scene to dispose of a grenade that was discovered in the possessions of a recently deceased relative. The event was caught by a news crew on live television, [...]
The iCarBlackBox lets you star in your own world’s wildest police videos
01/19/2011, Ever been in a car accident and ended up paying for damages even though it wasn’t your fault? Wish you had a camera that recorded the whole accident as proof? Well now you can. The iCarBlackBox is an app designed [...]
Person Struck By A Car After Following Walking Directions From Google Maps
05/30/2010, Technology is great, but sometimes weird things happen as folks begin to depend on technology too much. Such might be the case for a lady who was in Utah. Seems that she was using Google Maps on her BlackBerry to [...]
Fire Reported At Foxconn Assembly Plant
05/30/2010, Foxconn seems to be getting plenty of publicity lately, albeit not the kind that the company wants. After the many reports related to employee suicides, now rumor is going around that a fire broke out at one of the computer [...]
