All the stories tagged with: Military
DARPA’s SeeMe Satellites Displays Bird’s-Eye Views Of the Battlefield
01/22/2013, What if generals had the technology to view battlefields in real-time, will it be a game changer? If that sounds like something from a video game, American defense contractor Raytheon is building small disposable satellites that can be launched from [...]
Hide From Nearly Anything With New York Designer’s Stealth Wear
01/16/2013, As much as we’d like to believe we can peek at our neighbors from the row of bushes across the street from where they live, if they have cameras that can sense heat signatures, then we might as well be [...]
DARPA To Deploy Deep Sea Remote-Controlled Payloads
01/15/2013, We’ve seen DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vehicle (ACTUV) last year which can hunt down silent subs in deep sea waters. Now DARPA wants to up the ante by deploying payloads at the bottom of the sea. The program, [...]
White House Declines Petition To Build A Death Star After Over 34k Signatures
01/14/2013, The White House launching the ability for the Internet to put together petitions on topics important to them was used recently on a petition backed by Anonymous to make DDoS attacks a legal form of protest, while on the other [...]
TrackingPoint Brings ‘Auto-Aim’ To The Real World With Linux-Powered Rifles
01/09/2013, [CES 2013] As a teenager, I played a lot of PC games. But one thing I couldn’t stand anymore was the amount of cheating that went on in popular first-person shooters like Counter-Strike. Players would be able to see through [...]
DARPA Robot Ship Hunts Down Silent Subs
12/27/2012, If you are a submariner, then chances are you would subscribe to the idea that there are two different kinds of ships: subs and targets. The forward thinking folks over at the Pentagon intend to work on a new kind [...]
Air Force Enlists ESPN’s Help For Drone Footage Analysis
12/25/2012, The Air Force has enlisted the help of ESPN in order to go through and perform a thorough analysis on the copious amounts of video footage recorded from drone missions. Considering how the total number of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) [...]
Kinect Aids US Veterans With Physical Therapy
12/21/2012, The Kinect add-on from Microsoft is definitely a piece of gaming technology that has gone beyond its original purpose, that is, to offer an alternative gaming environment where your entire body is the controller itself. We have seen our fair [...]
Automatic Blackhawk Helicopter
12/21/2012, We have seen in the movie Transformers at how the race of alien robots manage to mimic our technology, where some prefer to take on the vehicles of war on land, while others take to the skies. Frankly, I am [...]
Drugged Bears Used By Air Force To Test Supersonic Ejector Seats
12/21/2012, In the 1950s, pototoes weren’t an option. Animals were the only option, particularly bears. It was the reign of the B-58 Hustle, the first operational supersonic jet bomber capable of Mach 2 flight. When the Air Force, together with Convair, [...]
25,000 Want Death Star To Be Built
12/20/2012, The Death Star does seem to be a physical improbability when you think about it, and the amount of time, effort and Republic credits required to construct something this massive with its own gravitational field boggles the mind. Impossible would [...]
Injected Foam Could Prevent Soldiers From Bleeding To Death
12/13/2012, The battlefield is an extremely dangerous place, as you can never tell whether this mission which you are on is your last. Well, an army is useless if it is full of hardware but does not have humans running the [...]
Sham II Syrian “Tank” Controlled by PlayStation Controller
12/11/2012, What you see above is the Sham II, which is a 100% made in Syria vehicle that is constructed from the chassis of a car, and rebels have touted it to be a tank of sorts. Taking around a month [...]
