The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released last month an explosive detection application for iOS and Android that can provide information on how to behave in case of detection of explosive material or leakage of toxic substances. What Can the Explosive Detection App Do? Imagine a police officer who finds
Category: Technology
Large technology research sector, in which various technical and scientific disciplines are involved, which studies the application and use of everything that can be functional to the solution of practical problems.
From the U.S, an anti-theft shoe.
Bag snatching is on the rise and an anti theft shoe is the cure. Going through dark streets at night to join friends, going back home through desolate streets. In big cities this is not always “a walk”. Indeed, what might seem the norm exposes us to great risks, such
Too many mosquitoes? Be careful, perhaps they are watching you!
We have already written in this blog about drone insects, real insects equipped with micro cameras and microphones to act as bugs or totally artificial insects, able to perform these same functions. Beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, and other insects with a big size, are indispensable for transporting mini equipment which
A weapon that causes debate: Taser, the electric gun.
Whether men or women you can use Taser gun, crime never pays, and to prove there is this video showing a woman thief who enters a subway restaurant and tries to steal the takings. Movements are those of a professional thief: bringing a weapon, she jumps over the counter, opens
A do-it-yourself drone who discovers the password and intercept calls.
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
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
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
USA, haptic belts guide soldiers on battlefield
How are GPS haptic belts the future of guiding? soldiers have already a lot of technology to help them navigate the battlefields at night, such as night vision goggles and GPS systems. From today on, however, a new tool will allow them to move in the dark without feeling awkward