Filed under: Transportation

The all-electric Lightning GT sports car might have just had its formal debut yesterday, but that doesn’t mean prototypes haven’t been tooling around for a while — check out this video of the swoopy two-door doing the track thing in ultra-dramatic slow-mo. Of course, there’s no sound, so there could totally be a nasty 5.0L Windsor V8 block under that hood, but we’ll give ‘em the benefit of the doubt for now. Video at the read link — and be honest, is this thing enough to sway your feelings from the Tesla Roadster or the Fisker Karma?

[Via Autoblog Green]

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

While we certainly hope the average (read: not GI) jane / joe isn’t overly concerned about the rate at which homegrown explosions detonate as desired, we understand the Army’s need to have more faith in their own munitions. Reportedly, a new “smart fuse” conjured up at Georgia Tech could soon prevent bombs from experiencing fuse failure by using “semiconductor fabrication equipment to make hundreds of ultra-high precision detonators on a wafer at the same time.” In addition to cutting down on the use of toxic heavy metals and increasing the safety of weapon production, the intelligent MEMS fuse will supposedly “incorporate built-in arm and fail-safe mechanisms that virtually guarantee that munitions go off when they should, every time.” Weapons that fire when needed — now there’s a concept.

[Image courtesy of Rich’s Incredible Pyro]

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