Test From Pentagon - Find 10 Red Balloons

Darpa, the American Pentagon's research agency is offering a prize of $40,000 to the first person or group that can find the 10 red balloons that they planted in continental U.S.A.  " The goal is to learn...

Transformers: Coming to an Army Near You

This time, the Pentagon may have outdone itself.  And I'm not even referring to death tolls, leaked documents, scandals, or borderline war crimes.No, this one can go under #straight-up-insanely-cool-science-and-technology.The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects...

Pentagon's $4 Million Military Telepathy Program: Silent Talk

Now this is some next level army technology. Silent Talk is the Pentagon's $4 million DARPA (Defense Advanced Resarch Projects) initiative to develop technology that would allow U.S. soldiers to communicate by...

DARPA announces wound-polyfilla* for troops

The soldiers of the future will apparently be patching themselves up on the battlefield and soldiering on, thanks to the latest invention announced by DARPA - a fluid that can fill wounds and stop bleeding. "Those splendid brainboxes at DARPA* - who are to ordinary insane...

Domestic Torture Via Radiation Weaponry: America's Horrific Shame

•  Extrajudicial targeting/punishment violates the U.S. Constitution, and has enabled crimes against humanity.  Government intelligence, security, law enforcement and revenue officials are said to be complicit.•  U.S. Justice Department confirms: ...

Robotic Pursuit Squads are a Forgone Conclusion

"Robotic Pursuit Squads are a Forgone Conclusion October 28 2008 / by Alvis BrigisCategory: Technology How likely is it that 5 years from now, sometime in 2013, the U.S. government will employ a pack of search robots to track human fugitives,...

GESTAPO USA: Gov't-Funded Vigilante Network Terrorizes America

• Pervasive NSA surveillance of the public and journalists just baseline program for array of extrajudicial abuses -- organized community "gang stalking,"  financial expropriation, and "slow genocide" via silent, invisible microwave and laser radiation weapons and...

ZAP! Have You Been Targeted by a 'Directed Energy Weapon'? Victims of Organi...

• GOVERNMENT AGENCIES CONFIRM SUCH WEAPONS EXIST, BECOMING STANDARD ISSUE IN WARFARE AND POLICE WORK• ALLEGED VICTIMS TO CONGRESS: PROBE 'DEW' ABUSE• A NEW PERSONAL PLEA FROM VIC LIVINGSTON: "THIS IS...

iRobot to Develop "Soft Robots"

iRobot, of Roomba fame, is developing a robot that can squeeze into openings smaller than its default dimensions would normally allow."“During military operations it can be important to gain covert access to...

Fighting The Next War With Insects And Sharks

There is a long history of the use of the honey bee in war. Roman catapults, with bee hives as projectiles, unleashed the fury of angry bees on an advancing enemy. Bee hives booby trapped to topple over with trip...

Hide and Seek-&-Destroy

If you find military-style robots in your garden, one of two things is happening: either they're filming Doctor Who on your street, or you've found yourself in the middle of the Ministry of Defense's Grand Challenge:"A village in England will host a robot hide-and-seek...

Scientists Harness Kinetic Energy from Keyboards

Researchers at the American Petroleum Research Institute’s Laboratory for Fuels announced today they have developed an economical means via which they can use the kinetic energy generated by users of...

Vulture - The Unmanned Aircraft Able to Stay in the Air for 5 Years

""The aircraft is able to fly over a single area, communicating or performing analysis for years at a time" - this is the statement of a DARPA representative> DARPA plans to create am UAV, which would be able...

Happy Birthday to DARPA!

The agency who gave you the Internet is celebrating its 50th anniversary.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, was launched at a time of Cold War paranoia. Its mission was to help the US...

Robots, Start Your Engines!

UPDATE: Carnegie Mellon wins it. I managed to go this entire time without using the phrase "Autobot".... Dang.UPDATE: The results are in, after a chaotic robo-rally beset with bugs. Fortunatley, none of the...

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