It’s the stuff of science fiction: robots that can hunt down and kill humans, powerful lasers that can destroy targets without leaving a trace, and a weapon that can supposedly knock you down without even touching you – all of these, and more, came one step closer to reality in 2008.
The developers of these technologies [...]
The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects.
The two devices under development by the civilian National Institute of Justice both [...]
Little is known about each individual photo, they are believed to be digitally colored. During WW1 color photography was in it’s infancy, pioneered by photographer Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud using Autochrome plates invented by the Lumiere brothers. These photos are either digitally remastered or works by Tournassoud.
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It seems a bug or glitch has caused an autonomous anti-aircraft gun in South Africa to kill nine soldiers and injure 14 others…
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“Due to an increased network threat condition, the Defense Department is blocking all HTML-based e-mail messages and has banned the use of Outlook Web Access e-mail applications, according to a spokesman for the Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations.”
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Researchers at the Lincoln Lab at MIT have come up with something that can be described as a sound flashlight. It emits powerful, but tightly focused acoustic beams that can penetrate underground.When the beams hit a mine, the vibrations from the collision push up dirt around the area. That movement of dirt is then registered [...]
14 September 2000, a Komatsu dozer pulled an abandoned tank from its archival tomb under the bottom of a lake near Johvi, Estonia. The Soviet-built T-34 tank had been resting at the bottom of the lake for 56 years. It was found that oil was still in the tank, and the Estonian war history club [...]
“For the past 137 years, a mysterious wreck has emerged at low tide each day on a beach off the coast of Panama. Researchers now know that it’s the presumed lost “Sub Marine Explorer,” one of the world’s first submarines and a vessel that would ultimately kill its German inventor.”
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A good friend of mine was the technical resource for the new book ‘Dangerous Ground’ by Larry Bond. My friend worked with Clancy on his non-fiction books in the past. I’ve ordered my copy and can’t wait to read it. If you like these type books, I am sure you’ll like this one…
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It’s not technological but I think it’s a great place to learn about these interesting women.
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