A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs, and explosives hidden under people’s clothes from a distance of up to 25 meters. This new device may prove to be a major breakthrough for the security industry, ...
Scientists at the University of Michigan College of Engineering are developing a six-inch robotic spy plane, modeled after a bat. Its purpose is gathering data such as sights, sounds, and smells in urban combat zones and transmitting the information back ...
“At 10:26 p.m. EST today, a U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, the USS Lake Erie, fired a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3, hitting the satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean as it traveled in space at ...
The Idaho based Company Motion 2 Energy has recently developed a system capable of channeling the energy created by movement into electric energy. The motion required for generating the energy can be either human or vehicular, and the electric energy ...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues in Turkey and Japan, have created a compact device that may serve as a basis for developing a portable, battery-operated source of terahertz radiation, known as ...
The Israeli company ODF Optronics has developed a new system for armored vehicles, which provides users inside the vehicle with full panoramic view of the outside environment. The “Omni-Directional Reconnaissance” (ODR) device makes the hazardous task of sweeping the surroundings ...
The Michigan based company V.I.O has developed a durable, waterproof, dustproof and shock resistant video camera, called POV. 1. The camera head can be attached almost anywhere and in addition to DVD-quality recording enables on-the-go editing and on-line sharing of ...
Electrical engineers at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have developed the world’s most complex “phased array” – or radio frequency integrated circuit. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), this device is expected to find ...
“Planum Vision”, an Israeli company specializing in security systems, has developed the TCUAV – Train Cable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The company claims their UAV has better surveillance capabilities due to its ability to oversee broader areas from different angles at ...
In late September 2007, Boeing successfully tested a 1kw solid state laser weapon mounted on a converted Avenger anti aircraft vehicle in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The laser successfully destroyed several unexploded mortar shells from a safe distance and was also ...
