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#cars
Fully Autonomous Audi TTS to Race at Mad Pikes Peak Rally Circuit
Forget the Darpa's urban challenge. This fully automated Audi TTS—equipped with GPS, sensors, and guidance systems—is set to race on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a crazy 19.99-kilometer rally race circuit with 156 turns. More » -
#retromodo
The Computer that Made the Internet
This is Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pinching the nipples of the Interface Message Processor, a ruggerized Honeywell DDP-516 Minicomputer. This box is responsible for what you are reading now, which either makes her my mom or the internet's mom or both. More » -
#darpa
DARPA Network Challenge: Win $40,000 by Finding 10 Red Weather Balloons
To celebrate the Web's 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking's role in time-critical communication. It's offering $40,000 in hard cash to the first entrant who finds ten 8-foot weather balloons located at fixed locations around the U.S. More » -
#military
Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, and DARPA To Create Military-Friendly Internet
Lockheed Martin is getting a $31 million contract by the US government to work on reinventing TCP/IP for a new Military Network Protocol. Also lending a hand in this effort to create a proper cyber-arsenal is Microsoft. What a team! More » -
#robots
iRobot Makes First Version of T-1000 or Number Six—We Will All Die Anyway
Gizmodo's bullpen five minutes ago. Me: "Holy f*ck. Check this." Matt: "We're all dead." Me: "We're so f*cked." Wilson: "Soft robotics. That's a scary phrase." Jason: "You mean a sexy phrase. Mmmm. Soft robots." Wilson: "Now, jamming skin... More » -
#robots
Military Car Robot Jumping 25 Feet In the Air Is Every Kid's Toy Dream
Watching this video of the Precision Urban Hopper jumping over a fence, makes my inner kid all giddy and excited. It also makes my outer nerd wet. It has been invented by Boston Dynamics, the creators of the scary BigDog. More » -
#terrorism
US Government Planning to Use Boeing 747 Supertanker to Clean Cities After Nuclear, Biological Attacks
I don't know about you, but this makes me nervous: US government agencies are now looking at the possibility of using the impressive Boeing 747-100 Supertanker for dirty radioactive and biological bombing clean-up. In fact, it's already being tested: More » -
#uavs
Pentagon Wants a Flying Bug: This Flapping Nano Bot is Phase One
Last year, DARPA granted aerospace firm, Aeronvironment, a chunk of change and six-months to demonstrate a bird-sized Nano Air Vehicle (NAV). This video shows the result: the "smallest ever free-flying aircraft to hover and climb with flapping wings." More » -
#summermodo
The Underwater Express Lets You Cruise In a Gigantic Gas Bubble at 100 Knots
While most DARPA projects never materialize, the Underwater Express mini-submarine project is entering the test phase. If successful, the Underwater Express will be capable of going 100 knots—far faster than the 30 knots today's subs can muster. More » -
#robots
Flesh Eating Robots Are Actually Vegetarian
Zombies, rejoice, for your jobs won't be replaced by flesh eating mister robotos. Cyclone Power—the guys who were thought to be developing flesh eating bots—are now saying that their creations are vegetarian. That's what CEO Harry Schoell says: More »










