WIRED has an excellent collection of Cold War Era Spy Gear posted, all originating from espionage works between the USSR and USA. A bunch of really cool pieces, such as a Turd Transmitter (a crap-shaped homing beacon spies would drop to transmit bombing targets to pilots) and a C.I.A. Rectal Escape Kit (both in gallery […]

The film Hanna centers around a teenage assassin played by Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones), who has been trained in the killing arts by her father (Eric Bana), an an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland. Apparently her father sends her on a mission and the poop hits the proverbial fan… all set to […]

Maybe it’s payback for the two nukes we dropped on them in doublya-doublya-two, but Japan has really put the sword to the shogun on this one. The Kaoiro Japanese Emoticon Stamp looks harmless enough at first glance, but actually contains thousands of punctuation characters that can be used to stamp some 2000 different emoticons. I […]