News tagged with combat helmet

Network turns soldiers' helmets into sniper location system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a platoon of soldiers fighting in a hazardous urban environment who carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 8




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DARPA sets sights on high-tech contact lenses

(Phys.org) -- A Bellevue, Washington, company specializing in display technology based on eyewear and contact lenses has sealed a deal with DARPA. Innovega, which says its technology can open a “new dimension ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 15, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

Virtual training for real combat

I zipped up the flak jacket, put on an Army helmet and snapped a pair of goggles over my eyes.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Domed dinosaur king of the head butt (w/ video)

Llamas can't really manage it. Giraffes aren't very good at it and while big horn sheep and muskox excel at it, it turns out a small plant eating dinosaur – the pachycephalosaur Stegoceras validum – was probably even b ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Army's new fitness tests add taste of battlefield

(AP) -- Sit-ups don't make a soldier, the Army has decided. So its 30-year-old fitness requirements are getting a battlefield-inspired makeover.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Motion sickness reality in virtual world, too

Clemson University psychologist Eric Muth sees motion sickness as potential fallout from high-end technology that once was limited to the commercial marketplace moving to consumer use in gaming devices.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Adding face shields to helmets could help avoid blast-induced brain injuries

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than half of all combat-related injuries sustained by U.S. troops are the result of explosions, and many of those involve injuries to the head. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Raytheon unveils Scorpion helmet technology

(AP) -- As the desert landscape unfolds ahead, the jet fighter pilot glances to his right. Spotting an enemy target, a sensor attached to his helmet relays the information straight back to his flight controls, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Developing tiny cave camera and iris recognition technology for military, homeland security

Researchers are expanding new miniature camera technology for military and security uses so soldiers can track combatants in dark caves or urban alleys, and security officials can unobtrusively identify a subject from an ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research could help protect frontline troops

A team of researchers at Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) is working to develop futuristic communications systems that could help protect frontline troops.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Organization analyzes how new war weapons will impact society

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the year 2009, when astronauts live in a space station, people send messages around the world with the touch of a finger, and diseases such as polio have virtually been eradicated from ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5


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