Lately we had several opportunities to talk about planes, with or without pilot, which use renewable energies, for example thanks to solar panels, to stay in the air for long hours, even during the night. One more novelty in the field of continuous flight comes from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a team of researchers [...]

The Japanese manufacturer Brother has announced that its technicians are working on a new version of Air Scouter, a retinal display that uses augmented reality to provide information to its wearer. Mounted on a simple pair of glasses, Air Scouter, which in this new and upgraded version is now capable of working also with corrective [...]

In the last few months, everyone in Italy is talking about telephone wiretapping, listening bugs and, most of all, about the limitations of their use for investigative purposes, limitations that the government is trying to pass with a bill that has created controversy. It looks like, in their frenzy for following the Leader’s every wish, [...]

Since long, researches and scientists worldwide are working to make possible the age-old dream of being somewhere without being seen by the people around us. So far, these researches have given some kind of result, used mostly in applications on military vehicles which are made “invisible” by projecting, on special panels mounted on their armors, [...]

Taking hidden video footage at any level, from a candid camera TV show up to high-profile police operations to gather evidence against criminals, always require maximum discretion to achieve the best result, be it a good laugh or vital intelligence to fight organized crime. Therefore, to avoid raising suspicions, the presence of a hidden camera [...]

It’s again them, the BAE Systems researchers. This time, they have presented a project they are working on, and which is developing a liquid which toughens instantly when subject to an impact, for example caused by a bullet. The final goal of the research project is to make movements easier for those soldiers who are [...]

BAE Systems have just presented their MOATV, a vehicle designed to make British soldiers’ life easier, during the long transfer marches in war zones where they are deployed, which involve carrying, either by hand or on their shoulders, loads that can reach up to 70 kgs. The acronym MOATV stands for Multi-Operated All-Terrain Vehicle. In [...]

As we happened to write on this blog a couple of weeks ago, the US Department of Defense, through its DARPA department, is currently looking for tactical ground vehicles which, in case of danger, are equipped with the necessary technology to allow them to escape via vertical takeoff (and the relevant vertical landing) in order [...]

There is not a single day when we do not read news about new UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, the so-called “drones”) being launched on the market or in design phase, and most of the armies from the Western hemisphere are widely using this kind of devices for reconnaissance or attack missions, to spy behind enemy [...]

Just a few days after reading the news about the first ultralight solar powered plane being able to fly nonstop for a full day and night, today we get to read about an ongoing attempt of breaking the endurance record, currently set at approximately 30 hours, for unmanned solar aircraft. The Zephyr plane, produced by [...]