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Army Gadgets

US Army Selects Top Inventions That Can Take, Or Save, Your Life

IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, are a sad fact of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, so you'll see the influence of these deadly weapons in this list of the US Army's top inventions for 2007. Every year the Army selects the top refinements, outright new inventions, or streamlined weaponry, and pumps out a list. This year's list features several new types of Humvee armor, GPS-guided artillery rounds, and a wheeled contraption for vehicles called SPARK (above), which sniffs out IEDs before they have a chance to do any damage. More »

6:00 PM on Sun Jul 6 2008
By Jack Loftus
7,729 views, 46 comments

Latest by Kevin: I like the up-armor on the M-1114 HMMV but it STILL leaves serious gaps and when that golden BB makes it through that gap people, all that extra armor is just a bumper for it to bounce off of and more »

electronic hogu

Electronic Hogu Measures Just How Hard Your Foe Can Beat You Up

The final project of a team from Cornell University, this electronic hogu, modelled above by a lantern-jawed mannequin called Bob, uses piezoelectric sensors and a microcontroller to measure the kicks and punches between contestants in a Tae Kwan Do bout. Piezoelectric sensors and a microcontroller are implanted in the transmitter side, while the receiver side has wireless receiver circuitry, another microcontroller, and a monitor to display the score. As that great black belt of martial arts would say, "Haiiiii-YAAAAAAA!" Yes, I'm talking Miss Piggy. [Cornell via GEARFUSE and HacknMod]

7:15 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By AddyDugdale
1,192 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: @vertigo: it usually doesn't register a score in that case, but to be fair, you're also just abusing the rules by not actually blocking. if your "block" doesn't actually reduce the amount of force transmitted to your body, you wasn't more »

synthetic web

Glass Micromachine Makes Silk the Same Way Spiders Do

A team at the Technical University of Munich in Germany has designed a glass chip pierced with micro-sized tubes that act the same way as spider silk glands, and can be used to replicate the initial stages of natural silk production. It's an interesting development since production of artificial spider silk has proven difficult in industrial quantities and qualities, and its tensile strength to density ratio is five times that of steel, making it potentially very useful as armor and in medical applications. More »

9:20 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Kit Eaton
6,189 views, 22 comments

Latest by ackthbbft: @N@tedog: I never said we were there yet. The point is this is a big advancement, which should get everyone excited for what is down the road. If people like you were only interested in the end result and not more »

armor

Body Armor and Fashion Collide in the Urban Security Suit

Designer Tim Smit had a vision: somehow unite people's need for personal security with fashion. So he created the Urban Security suit concept, a neoprene outfit with carefully placed kevlar panels— the biggest over the heart area. The neoprene lets you move easily, the kevlar shields your internal organs, and there's a gasmask to protect you from airborne toxins. It looks pretty interesting, in a dystopian future, Bladerunner-ish kind of way, though we're not sure of its popular appeal. Maybe emo kids of tomorrow will be sporting something like it? ... as long as it comes in black. [Yanko]

9:40 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Kit Eaton
9,862 views, 46 comments

Latest by Arsenal6: me want NOW more »

ouchies

D3O Armor Protects Shovel to Head

When our own Brian Lam beat up a blonde at Nextfest to test D3O soft body armor, we were...well, a little weirded out, but also impressed and a bit proud. But Brian, being the upstanding citizen that he is, refused to see the woman hit in the head.

That's why the press brought in this guy. [breitbart via digg]

10:06 AM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Mark Wilson
29,327 views, 47 comments

Latest by ColdAsIce: @Mark 2000: That's not the issue. The issue is that you could still get a concussion from this, since it will only stop the initial impact from hitting a small area, but it may not compress enough to stop your more »

nextfest07

Video of a Blonde Being Smashed by a Shovel (While, Thankfully, Wearing D3O Body Armor)

Here's a video of an attractive blonde woman being hit by a shovel wielded by another blonde. I swear, this is not merely lesbionic, but gadgety, too. She's wearing a knee brace reinforced with that D3O body armor gel/foam/flubber that gives her a +10 bonus against blunt weapons. No damage! [D3O via NextFest]

6:15 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By Brian Lam
64,671 views, 36 comments

Latest by n/a: The stuff started out being a non-newtonian fluid, much like silly-putty, in fact it might be silly putty for all we know. This is what you see in the tin that they stick their fingers into. What the developers of more »

i'm batman

Batman's New Suit Kicks Even More Ass

Even more than than James Bond or Jack Bauer, Batman's the epitome of a guy using gadgets to the fullest. That's why we love him, and that's why we love the most recent Batman movie. Just for you, here's a sneak peek at Batman's redesigned suit from the upcoming 2008 sequel. More »

5:00 PM on Fri Jun 15 2007
By Jason Chen
37,559 views, 39 comments

we're gonna pump you up

Toughen Up Your Mac Mini With VictorSystems


There are some great Mac Mini setups out there, but none of them would hold up to military conditions. Enter VictorSystems. They took your typical pint-sized Mac and covered it in aluminum armor, wrought plates and finned heat sinks. Now the Mini is combat ready. More »

5:30 PM on Wed May 9 2007
By blongo3
1,588 views, 11 comments

pcs

Quad FX-ready Towers Keep Your CPUs Chilled

System builders listen up. If you've been eyeing AMD's 4x4 platform, the company has teamed up with Thermaltake to create two Quad FX-ready towers, the Armor Extreme Edition and the Kandalf Extreme Edition. The towers use a Dual-Channel Air Guide to pump cool air from outside directly to the two CPUs inside. Both towers also come with dual 120mm and 90mm fans to keep the rest of your components cool. Pricing hasn't been set, but if you're dying to build a quad-core AMD system, these towers should guide you in the right direction. – Louis Ramirez More »

5:00 PM on Tue Dec 5 2006
By Louis Ramirez
266 views, 6 comments

Latest by dtn: Sorry, but I think that AMD really screwed the pooch on the Quad. Personally, I think they're scrambling to push something out (bad though it is) due to the fact Intel did a slam dunk on them. AMD's 4X4 more »

announcements

High Tech Suit To Storm into Battle

The Land Warrior suit is on the cusp of revolutionizing how our soldiers do battle. A high-tech collection of electronics, the suit includes a helmet-mounted monocle that gives soldiers sniper-like vision thanks to its 12x zoom and built-in night vision. The suit also has its own PAN (Personal Area Network) that distributes power and data. A built-in GPS lets soldiers know where they stand at any given moment and the suit's 12 pound weight is a huge improvement over previous incarnations that have tipped the scales at 40 pounds (or the weight of two XPS M2010 laptops). Shocking as it may sound, a lot of today's ground soldiers don't even have radios, so this is an excellent upgrade for our folks overseas. – Louis Ramirez More »

4:15 PM on Fri Oct 20 2006
By Louis Ramirez
649 views, 18 comments

Latest by Spaceboy: I hope it includes some body armor....that should be the first item to go in the field. Plus, information overload would cause the poor GI so much confusion, lots more Brits and Italians are going to get killed. Who cares,right? more »

digital cameras

Camera Armor, Get that DSLR Ready for Battle

Made will be launching a line of DSLR cases, or "armor" as they like to put it. They are elastometric cases that protect the camera from all of the bad stuff the earth has to throw at you. The camera armor will also come with Made's palm strap and ergonomic shoulder strap. Sounds like worthy investment if you like to take that big, bad DSLR out in the nature where it can easily get its ass kicked. No word on what models will be supported, but expect all of the popular models (like the pictured Canon 30D) to be supported. – Travis Hudson More »

4:04 PM on Mon Sep 11 2006
By Travis Hudson
2,924 views, 9 comments

Latest by camera_armor_scot: Hi Jim, Thanks for your comments. I am sorry that we did not answer your letter, I am not sure where we dropped the ball on that one but I'd be happy to email you if you want to contact more »

gadgets

Liquid Body Armor By End Of 2007

The company Armor Holdings is developing a liquid-type of body armor to either replace or enhance the current tough fiber and polymer armor that's in use today. The liquid can be smeared on a person, or a person's clothing, and stiffens when hit by an object. More »

6:45 PM on Tue Aug 1 2006
By Jason Chen
894 views, 7 comments

gadgets

Vibrating Combat Attire

Creepy. This is some sort of vibrating haptic combat vest that will alert you to the state of your comrades in battle and might even be able to sense incoming enemies. More »

1:23 PM on Thu Jun 1 2006
By johnb
165 views, 5 comments

gadget

Troops Prefer More Trendy Armor

Soldiers are giving mixed reviews to their latest high-tech body suits, saying the suits are "goofy" and look like "alien spacesuits." Their design is based on the suits that bomb squads wear. They are worn by Humvee gunners to reduce the spiraling number of casualties. Soldiers must not realize that having high-tech clothing isn't always the trendiest, unless of course you happen to be Master Chief—he always looks bad-ass in armor. More »

9:32 AM on Wed May 10 2006
By Travis Hudson
290 views, 14 comments

gadgets

New Flexible Ski 'Armor' Hardens On Impact

This came out a while back but this is the first time we've seen it in the wild. The US and Canadian ski teams are sporting a new garb that they now supposedly refuse to ski without: a lightweight material in their body suits that hardens in less than a thousandth of a second, then instantly flexes again. The mesh, called d3o, comes in perforated sheets shaped into pads for different parts of the body. More »

9:39 AM on Thu Feb 16 2006
By Travis Hudson
8,413 views, 8 comments

Latest by joMbe: The flexible ski armor sounds remarkably like the Armorgel in Neal Stephanson's book 'Snow Crash'. I googled and found the following excerpt at this url. http://www.ereader.com/product/book/excerpt/12128 "Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a more »

armor

Armored iPod

This iPod has more armor than most of our troops in Iraq. Since the page is in Japanese—and appears to have been published back in 2004—I have no idea whether it saw the front lines or was simply a one-off casemod for a tin-can robot. All I want to know is, where can I get an armband to go jogging with this thing? More »

3:55 AM on Sun Aug 28 2005
By Noah R
163 views