Is this the coolest war gear technological leap forward of the year?

And it's not even been invented by America.

No, the latest hardware to send a chill through the hearts of military planners comes from that forward thinking Middle East country Iran!

It's a stealth boat! Which flies!!!

Called Bavar-2, or Confidence-2, it is a radar-evading flying boat.

Iran's state TV says the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard has received its first three squadrons of the things.

Coming to an estuary, canal or other waterway near you (depending on progress of world wide revolution against decadent west).

Just to add a slight disclaimer in the incredibly unlikely event that this proves to be, in fact, a load of codswallop, the AP pictures do come with the rider: "THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE" (not my caps)

SKY Broadband has been hit by a major hacking scandal after the names and addresses of more than 5,300 users along with a list of pornographic films they have 'illegally' shared was posted on line.

Pretty embarrassing for them! And for sky as well. The list is understood to have been compiled by the solicitors ACS: Law, which specialises in tracing people suspected of film and music piracy.

The Information Commissioner said last night it would investigate the leak and contact ACS: Law to establish how it had allowed personal information to be made public.

A spokesman said: "Any organisation processing personal data must ensure that it is kept safe and secure."

It is believed that hackers opposed to the company's activities deliberately targeted the firm's database before posting details online.

A spokesman for ACS: Law told the BBC the company was the victim of a "criminal" attack on its systems.

Being perpetually connected through social media can increase stress, weaken personal relationships, and even cause sleep loss, according to a U.S. university.

After imposing a week-long blackout in the use of Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging and other media, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in central Pennsylvania found that the pervasive technology had hidden pitfalls.

``Students realized that social media, especially Facebook and instant messaging, if not managed properly, can take over their lives.'' said Eric Darr, the college provost.

A teenage girl who included her address in an invitation to her birthday party on Facebook was alarmed when 21,000 people confirmed their attendance.

The bash was called off when the school pupil was swamped by RSVPs from unwanted would-be guests on the social networking site.

The girl had reportedly only intended to invite 15 friends to her 15th birthday party and did not mean to make her address public.

Walking into a lamp-post while texting might raise a laugh but exposes a serious and growing public hazard, it was claimed today.

Accidents of this sort are happening every day with hospital casualty staff reporting increasing numbers of mishaps, said technology expert Dr Joanna Lumsden.

Anecdotal evidence suggested as many as one in 10 people in the UK had suffered injuries as a result of tripping, falling, colliding with a sold object, or being involved in a road accident while using a mobile phone.

Society needs to wake up to the potentially harmful effects of the internet, networking sites and computer games on the brain, leading neuroscientist and peer Baroness Susan Greenfield said today.

Lady Greenfield, one of Britain's most prominent female scientists, claimed the issue was "almost as important as climate change".

"I think the quality of our existence is threatened," she said. "We need discussions about this, we need debate, we need more of an effort put in.

Listening to 5 Live on the way into work this afternoon I heard Hollywood director Joe Dante talking about the state of the film industry in the wake of plunging DVD sales.

The man who helmed such hits as Gremlins, The 'burbs, and, er, Gremlins 2 was highlighting the fall off in people purchasing films to watch in their own homes.

Then I got to thinking about when I actually had bought DVDs recently and I realised that I hardly ever do.

For me, it's not about downloading the films online.

Personally it's multi-channel TV - even with Freeview, which is all I've got, there are so many films on every day, that chances are you've got a hard drive recorder full of stuff you haven't watched yet.

In fact mostly I only buy films which I really love, for all the extras that go with them (and tell myself I will get round to watching them at some point...).

Also there are those films that lilly-livered TV executives refuse to screen uncut, such as Batman Begins, which has all the scary scenes removed, emasculating it, and old classics such as Hard to Kill, the Steven Seagal film which is basically hacked to bits with all the violence taken out.

Dante said that even now films weren't being made because they were unlikely to recoup their costs.

A lot of movies only make their money back through the DVD sales.

If they don't exist, then Hollywood, which is a hard nosed business, won't make them.

There's no doubt that, my own personal viewing decisions aside, a lot of people download movies illegally for free.

Am I excited about news that development of the Duke Nukem Forever game is finally 'complete'?

According to Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford all that's left is a bit of 'polishing' and gamers can expect a 2011 release.

Well, there have certainly been more than a few promising messages in the long drawn out process of producing this title.

Will it be rubbish? Well possibly, and that would be a real shame.

However, I'm admitting to being 'a bit' excited.

Duke Nukem 3D was released in 1996, was a smash hit and brought some much needed 'humour' and a great irreverent attitude to the first person shooter genre, which was overrun with gloom-fests like Quake.

Don't forget we've recently had one of the other long lost game development hell holy grails in Starcraft 2 - and as technobabble found here it was completely brilliant.

So here's hoping.

And if it's not...we're going to tear Randy a new one!