Monday, August 6, 2012

Google Reveals The Global Small Arms 'Ecosystem'

The joint interactive media venture features technology from Google’s Creative Lab and data accumulated from global small arms watchdogs. Google

Google Project Shows Scale Of Global Small Arms ‘Ecosystem’ -- Stars and Stripes

A new interactive media project combines almost 20 years of small arms research around the globe and the latest in Google technology to show the business side of where the deadly weapons begin and end.

According to the joint project, 60 percent of violent deaths in the world are due to small arms and light weapons—weapons that include handguns, assault rifles, light machine guns, RPGs and the ammunition they shoot.

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My Comment: This is cool stuff and kudos to Google for doing it. For more info (and a video) go to Google's blog post on this project here.

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