As a kid growing up in the military there was nothing more fun than hanging out on a Saturday afternoon at Eglin AFB watching F-15 Eagles doing maneuvers. Back then, the F-15 was the king of the skies, how times do change. Today, the F-15 is considered outdated an ancient and it’s role as master of the skies has been replaced by the new breed F-22 Raptor. The Raptor is one kick ass fighter jet, boasting two Pratt & Whitney F-119-100 engines that can produce 35,000 pounds of thrust each and push the F-22 Raptor to a cruising speed of Mach 1.72. Compare that to the 23,000 pound thrust class engines powering the F-15 and F-16 fighters. The Raptor is the most advanced fighter ever built and when combined with it’s stealth technology, thrust vectoring system and superior avionics it makes for one unfair fight. Kind of makes me want to go out in the yard and run around with my arms spread out pretending to be Clint Eastwood flying FireFox. Here’s some photos from F22Fighter.com and a video piece Discovery did on Future Weapons.

via: TechEBlog

Guys love their remote controls. We’ll spend all kinds of money trying to get our remotes to do the damnedest things all in the search of that one remote that can control everything. Well, if your rich enough to own a yacht then this is the remote you need. Denmark’s Lantec Systems has created a solid gold remote that can control home media and automation systems including video, audio, internet, CCTV, alarm, lights, curtains, air-conditioning and even navigation systems. Be warned though, just because it can control navigation systems and costs $55k doesn’t mean it’ll keep you from crashing that $1.5 million dollar yacht into a piling in the middle of the harbor. You’ve been warned.

via: Technabob