Category | Military

High-Tech Glove To Help Soldiers In Combat

Posted on 28 April 2008

Many research companies were assigned or they just simply wanted to design equipment that is safer and easier to use and carry, but their results were unconvincing. MIT, the University of Toronto, and the Georgia Institute of Technology developed systems based on arm movements and using accelerometers, gyroscopes, and high-tech sensors but they “don’t work […]

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DARPA To Build A Weapon Inspired From A Novel

Posted on 25 April 2008

Arthur C. Clarke is a writer who brought up many great ideas that could become a reality and now DARPA will try to develop a weapon inspired from the 1955 Earthlight novel. The weapon that DARPA plans to build is based on the Stiletto which is “a solid bar of light” and with it you […]

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Spy In The Sky For The Miami Police

Posted on 11 April 2008

The Miami Police Department is very near to using a technology that would allow them to have extra sets of eyes in emergency situations. Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) is developed by Honeywell International and is a flying pilotless drone with electro-optic or infrared sensors.
These allows it to capture images from overhead, hovering around dangerous areas […]

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FEL Technology Could Provide Weapons For The Navy

Posted on 02 April 2008

The technologies involving laser caught the attention of many scientists from various domains. Now, the Navy is trying to equip their battleships with weapons based on laser technology. This can be possible if it were to rely on a project made in 2004 by the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility which designed a Free Electron […]

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