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A Robotic Triceratops Will Guard Your House While You’re Away

John Farrier — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:30:35 +0000

Disappointingly, the Banryu “Guard Dragon” home security robot does not come with laser beam eyes, but it did debut in 2002, so maybe there have been upgrades since that time. This device from TSMUK, a Japanese robotics company, moves slowly — only three meters a minute. And it’s not life-size. But it’s a start in the right direction.

You can watch a video of it at the link.

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Security Company Uses Box to Show How Easy It Is to Break into Your Home

John Farrier — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:46:52 +0000

The security company ADT wanted to convince apartment and condo owners in Santiago, Chile that it’s really easy to break into their homes. So the ad agency DDB made spring-loaded boxes and shoved them under the front doors of prospective customers. At the link, you can see a video from the ad agency showing how they work.

Link via Geekosystem | Photo: Copyranter

High School Course in … Domestic Security

Alex — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:12:40 +0000

Remember our post about boy scouts trained in anti-terrorism? In one high school in Maryland, you can even take courses in domestic security – but before you cry foul, consider this: it may simply be a good career move for the kids.

Meade High School, where Edler teaches, made its own history this year. The long-troubled public high school become one of the first in the nation to offer a four-year course in domestic security. The goal: to help graduates build careers in one of America’s few growth industries.

"This course will help me get a top-secret security clearance," said Darryl Bagley, an eager 15-year-old. "That way I can always get a job."

Meade offers its 2,150 students a standard high school curriculum, including electives like advanced calculus and carpentry. But the 90 ninth-graders who chose the new homeland security program this last school year focused on topics torn from the headlines: Islamic jihadism, nuclear arms, cyber-crime, domestic militias and the like.

New themes even were added to their science, social studies and English classes.

"There’s a lot of homeland security issues in ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ " said Bill Sheppard, the program coordinator. "Like, how do you deal with infiltration in your own family?"

Bob Drogin of the Los Angeles Times has the story of agents in the making: Link (Photo: Chris Usher / LA Times)