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Finding ourselves driving under a heavy rainfall, or in a thick fog, is certainly not what you would call a pleasant experience, and often, using fog headlights would not make the situation much better. In such cases, fortunately, modern technology can lend us a hand, at least according to the latest researches being carried out [...]
Archive for March, 2010
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Spy audio recording devices
March 22nd, 2010 
admin The toolkit of the perfect spy has changed over time, sporting the latest development in miniature technology, be it a fountain pen which hides a gun like in James Bond movies, a micro transmitter concealed in the buckle of what looks like a normal belt, or in modern times, an audio digital micro recorder that [...]
Tags: A new surveillance camera can detect even sniper rifles
March 22nd, 2010 admin When setting up defense and surveillance for protection of sensitive targets such as, for example, embassies, military installations or even any target which might represent a symbolic value for terrorists of any kind, one has to take into consideration not only immediate threats such as suicide bombers or bomb cars, but also the less visible [...]
Quantum video sensors, more power to see in the dark
March 22nd, 2010 admin A few days ago, the California based company InVisage Technologies has just presented to the public its latest product called QuantumFilm, that is, the first quantum mechanics based video sensor. Thanks to its technology and philosophy, this sensor is capable of achieving results 4 times better if compared to the normal CMOS sensors used for [...]
A solar energy blimp for non-stop flights
March 22nd, 2010 admin The US Department of Defense is developing a program for creation of a blimp, which can be used for missions involving real time transmission of images and radar intelligence towards and from ground troops during ground operations. Of course, due to the huge changes in technology over the last hundred years, the only things that [...]
Spy listening devices are wireless in the 21st century
March 18th, 2010 admin Being the movie aficionado that I am, the other day I was watching a German movie called The Lives Of Others, about a Stasi agent in 1980s German Democratic Republic. When I came to the scene in which the main character finds out that his home had been bugged, and that he had been listened [...]
Who needs a pilot to carry heavy loads?
March 18th, 2010 admin Boeing has just completed a run of test flight, to assess the potentials of the new version of their unmanned helicopter Hummingbird. This new version, named A160T, is capable of carrying a sling payload just below 600 kilos of material, at a distance of approximately 150 nautical miles, and to return to its launch base. [...]
A rocket powered helicopter, very easy to use
March 18th, 2010 admin Dragonfly DF1 mini helicopter is a one seat chopper, manufactured my Swisscopter, a firm that in spite of its name is operating out of Tucson, Arizona. The particularity of this vehicle lies in the fact that motion is provided not by a normal engine placed on the copter’s body, but by small rockets housed on [...]
Spy recording equipment
March 17th, 2010 admin Not only for secret agents, police and secret traders, the usage of electronic miniature devices to secretly record conversations and phone calls is now widespread in many other fields, thanks to the ever decreasing price of this kind of spy recording equipment, which makes it affordable for almost everyone. And this means that devices which [...]
A blind man can now see through his tongue
March 17th, 2010 admin Thanks to the latest developments of technology, a British soldier who got seriously wounded in Iraq, and lost his sight due to the wounds, is now capable of recognizing shapes around him, walking without aid and even read, thanks to BrainPort, a device which uses electro-tactile stimulations as a surrogate of eyesight. At a first [...]
