Whenever there’s talk about Azerbaijani violence — be it killing and mutilating elderly people in Talish, shelling Stepanakert, killing an unarmed, disabled man in Hadrut , axing a sleeping Armenian officer during NATO trainings, decapitating a Yazidi soldier of RA army and parading their head in their villages, there’s one…

Disclaimer: I do not claim to be impartial and this opinion piece does not claim to be entirely neutral. As an Armenian, I have lived in Armenia and my world-view has been shaped by its context. What I have tried to do is to give a honest opinion, based on…

The thesis of a potential Armenian attack on the Mingachevir dam is actively circulated among the Azerbaijani propaganda machine, as a part of the “Şeytan Ermənistan” image they are trying to craft. To create an image of a country, and a nation, that has no respect for the human life…

Looks like IGG has quit pretending it’s not just a website hosting pseudo-scientific scams. I looked for a button to report the Hapbee campaign as scam — there was none to be found. It’s pretty anti-consumer, and I hope — illegal in at least some jurisdictions. So what’s Hapbee? I…

Now here’s an IndieGoGo campaign for a water bottle that condenses the water vapor from the air and into your bottle. All by using solar panels! Would I absolutely love to have such a gadget? A water bottle that fills itself? Of course I would (even if drinking pure condensed…

Abstract Moon by 1-Ring, Inc. is a gimmicky, yet functional product idea with a flawed marketing and financing model. Though understated crowdfunding goal and shipping dates put this to question, even if Moon by 1-Ring reaches production stage and the end user, the final product is unlikely to find wide adoption…

Did you ever dream of a cigarette lighter that would solve the world’s global warming problem? Enter VOLT, the self-proclaimed “world’s FIRST most ECO-Friendly ion LIGHTER” (no, I did not make up the capitalization, check out the IndieGoGo page). …

I might be kicking a dead horse here — most of the people involved realize by now that the so called “Hidden Zipper, Waterproof, & Kevlar Reinforced Backpack by Backzips” Kickstarter campaign was a scam. Backzips caught my eye because of their aggressive Facebook marketing campaign — like Kickstarter, Facebook…

The polio years In 1916, there were 27.000 registered cases of polio and 6.000 polio deaths only in the United States. When a member of a family was infected, the family was quarantined, and special signs were posted on their doors to warn people that there was a sick person in the house…