A DIY Drone? Yes! Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins, respectively, a former cyber security contractor and a former engineering systems consultant at the American Air Force, have shown, during a security conference, held last year in Las Vegas, a do-it-yourself drone aircraft, 6 feet long (1.80 m c.ca) and weighing
Month: July 2012
A remote-controlled mini-helicopter that can see through concrete walls.
The U.S. company TiaLinx Inc had already designed a mini robot, the Cougar20-H, able, thanks to some special sensors, to detect a person breathing through a concrete wall. However, the robot showed limited mobility, as it was a rolling ground-based device. The manufacturer has however managed to solve the motion
From the USA, a scanner that will know everything about you from 164 feet away!
It will probably be available in one or two years, tells the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a Multipurpose Scanner ever seen before, that will know everything about people scanned: substances in the body and clothes, whether there are traces of drugs, explosives or other hazardous chemicals. And all this
From Japan, the camera that turns your fingers into an objective without lenses.
Think of how many times you have used your fingers as a viewfinder to frame an object, a person or a landscape to which you want to take a photo. In Japan they have patented a device that will do exactly that: to transform the rectangle formed by your fingers
Scanning of the unconscious, a system that allows soldiers to recognize threats.
The soldiers who scan the battlefield for threats, besides equipment that allows them to see at night, like the technological night vision goggles, as the smartest binocular may soon rely on a new instrument: a device consisting of a series of binoculars able to scan the brain, recognizing soldier’s unconscious
Drones and hijacking, a new obstacle to safety in the U.S.
Drone Hijacking is a thing. Newspapers and TV are increasingly focusing their attention on UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or drones, that is unmanned aircraft which are used mostly for military purposes and surveillance from above. A major step forward in the technology which, however, raises several questions, not only for
From Switzerland, an antistalking software. Is it really effective?
A Swiss company has launched a new version of its antivirus product, which now also contains an anti-stalking software. We have already written, on this blog, about a mobile phone able to immobilize attackers through electrical impulses. The software we are talking about in this article, instead, is completely harmless
Military vs University, the use of drone technology in the USA.
The list of the Federal Aviation Administration of certified and licensed operators to fly unmanned planes in the U.S. space reveals that the largest users of drone technology in the United States are not law enforcement agencies, but universities. The academic institutions that have received certificates of authorization (COA) are
UGSs (Unattended Ground Sensors). How to remotely control an entire nation
Even during the Cold War, the involved parties have used covert listening devices to remotely obtain information on what the opposing party was programming, listening to what was happening in rooms, buildings, or in the case of East Berlin, an entire city. But in America’s cooling war in Afghanistan, U.S.