All the stories tagged with: Military
Cyborg beetles could see military use
09/28/2009, A research team at the University of California Berkeley just announced that they managed to implant electrodes into a beetle successfully, where this operation enabled scientists to control the insect’s movements in flight. This research could full well see action [...]
Vulture strato-wingship keeps on going
09/21/2009, The DARPA-backed Vulture strato-wingship is able to keep on going for up to 5 years in our upper atmosphere without the need to land, thanks to it being feather light and yet strong. This electrically propelled aircraft can charge up [...]
Military robot makes short work of walls
09/15/2009, Bad guys everywhere, beware – even a high wall won’t deter governments and their dedicated military machine from hunting you down. The latest progress in the robotics department results in a military robot which is able to clear obstacles more [...]
Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton
09/08/2009, Life in the military has just gotten a whole lot more interesting with the Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) exoskeleton. While it won’t be as useful as the ones see in G.I. Joe, this li-ion battery-powered exoskeleton ought to turn [...]
Pretec SSD self-destructs data
09/08/2009, Pretec has come up with a new kind of SSD that supposedly self-destructs data within in a speedy and efficient manner, targeting it for military and secret service use. The patented technology used takes all of just 0.1 seconds to [...]
Bed Bunker for the paranoid
07/30/2009, We’re guessing if you live in some war torn country and need to have a sense of security with you at all times even when you hit the sack, the Bed Bunker would make for a pretty no-brainer of a [...]
Low Power Direct View Flexible Displays For US Air Force
07/06/2009, The US State Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Universal Display Corporation a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to develop “Low-Power, Direct-view Flexible Displays” which are meant to end up as a non-glass, ejection-safe, amenable OLED display [...]
Camouflaged Robotic Snake
06/16/2009, The Israeli military are back with a brand new addition to their arsenal – a camouflaged robotic snake which comes complete with a camera and microphone embedded within its head. Just like the Biblical prophecy, striking this mechanical serpent’s head [...]
Military F-16 Simulator Maxes Out On Graphics Cards
06/10/2009, Check out this super high definition machine from the military – a F-16 simulator which is powered by 120 (yes, count ‘em!) Intel Dual Core PCs complete with $400 graphics cards within a special industrial casing. Apparently, this simulator is [...]
XM25 Individual Air Burst Weapon
05/27/2009, Remember the shoulder-mounted weapon that we see in the Predator movies? Well, the US military has already achieved something like that in the form of the XM25 Individual Air Burst Weapon. This will most probably be the shoulder-fired weapon of [...]
Eve Ensler at D7: “Blood Coltan” in Congo
05/27/2009, This week, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher are hosting the D7 conference in San Diego and today, Kara Swisher interviewed Eve Ensler, playwright of the “The Vagina Monologues” and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against [...]
US-Owned GPS Could Fail In 2010
05/20/2009, GPS lovers, take note. The global positioning system (GPS) operated by the US government could fail as early as next year, as a recent report showed that “it is uncertain whether the Air Force will be able to acquire new [...]
Distributed Acoustic Conversation Shielding System
05/11/2009, Walls have ears, or so the saying goes. Well, smart folks at MIT aim to debunk that by developing a secure conversation masking system which relies on a comprehensive system of power strips and sensors in order to drown out [...]
