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    Army Helmet-Mounted Radar Will Give Soldiers Eyes In the Back Of Their Heads

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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    10/28/09

    In reply to Petman Walking/Balancing Robot Is Like BigDog's "Human" Master
    Already expecting a video parody... #petman
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    Image of madog madog
    10/28/09

    In reply to Army Helmet-Mounted Radar Will Give Soldiers Eyes In the Back Of Their Heads
    Wish I could find a video of Al Franken in oldschool SNL with his mobile uplink team using satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Damn the DCMA right now. Closest thing I can find is this (and of course the insert image icon isn't appearing while editing):

    [snltranscripts.jt.org]
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    Image of gunluva is prepared to drop. gunluva is prepared to drop.
    10/27/09

    In reply to Army Helmet-Mounted Radar Will Give Soldiers Eyes In the Back Of Their Heads
    All well and good until someone picks up the "Blind" skull. #radarhelmet
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    Image of noroadtrippin noroadtrippin
    10/27/09

    In reply to Army Helmet-Mounted Radar Will Give Soldiers Eyes In the Back Of Their Heads
    "Sounds like an awesome tool to keep our soldiers safe, but there are a few problems that would need to be addressed"

    Also...the fact that all of this Land Warrior crap they keep developing turns out to be relatively useless on the ground. The battalions that have taken to Afghanistan and Iraq thus far have tossed it in their gear lockers shortly after arriving in country every time. Its trying to solve too many theoretical problems that just don't need a bunch of gizmos to solve. Sure, at face value it seems to make a lot of sense that I would want to know what is approaching me from behind...but really, my PLT and SQD members at my 6 ought to already be handling that. I don't need a radar. #radarhelmet
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/27/09

    In reply to Army Helmet-Mounted Radar Will Give Soldiers Eyes In the Back Of Their Heads
    I already have eyes in the back of my head, and can see through walls. I am a Mother.
    We. Know. All. #radarhelmet
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    Image of USB_Humping_Dog USB_Humping_Dog
    10/27/09

    @Curves: Y'know, I fully believe that motherhood impart mystical omniscience. #radarhelmet
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/28/09

    @USB_Humping_Dog: It did come with the awakening of some pretty instinctual abilities. Its quite amazing actually. #radarhelmet
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    Image of USB_Humping_Dog USB_Humping_Dog
    10/28/09

    @Curves: It's the only way to explain why I got busted so much growing up. That, or I just suck at lying (but I refuse to believe that, so there we go). #radarhelmet
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    Image of awjans awjans
    10/27/09

    In reply to Army Helmet-Mounted Radar Will Give Soldiers Eyes In the Back Of Their Heads
    Does radar actually see you when it's cooking you? #radarhelmet
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/27/09

    In reply to Army Helmet-Mounted Radar Will Give Soldiers Eyes In the Back Of Their Heads
    Movement. Signals clean. Range, 20 meters.
    Range, 17 meters.
    15 meters
    12 meters
    Man this is a big Fucking signal.
    9 meters. 7. 6.
    It's reading right man, look.
    5 meters, man. 4, What the Hell? #radarhelmet
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    This computer understands that channel locks are not mean to be used on thumbs, right? #ar
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    does it berate you when you inadvertently fuck something up? #ar
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    10/27/09

    @nutbastard: Yup. If you do everything right, you have a virtual romantic evening with a hott e-lady-of-the-night. If you screw up, you get the same virtual romance holodeck experience except your virtual pee pee cannot get an e-rection, and you are virtually humiliated. And then when you try to explain it to her, she just laughs at you for telling a pair of glasses that you've just had too much wine. #ar
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    Image of NightInfinity NightInfinity
    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    I saw some video where BMW(I think) was showing this tech off. Very cool. #ar
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    10/27/09

    @NightInfinity: Yes, that was a concept video, but I'm very happy to hear that it's been put to real life application at last. I think this is one of the better immediate uses for AR tech.

    As something like an engine is assembled in a relatively standard way, it should be easy for the software to recognize parts, and what it is looking at - I also think it would be pretty easy to slap a sticker with a glyph onto parts to ID them and give a little orientation data to a system like this if needed. #ar
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    Image of CoHPhasor CoHPhasor
    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    Problem is that mechanics need their hands to be able to go in tight spots.
    Hell, what happens when you slip trying to loosen/tighten something and break it? "Guess I'm not fixing this today!" . How about how easy it'll be to smuggle these to the enemy? lol! #ar
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    10/27/09

    @CoHPhasor: ps,.. Since when was ease-of-use part of Military TM's anyway? ;-p #ar
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    10/27/09

    @CoHPhasor: They're written at an eight grade English level. How much easier can you get? Though you have a point, half the shit I used to have to fix on aircraft way never in a good place to stick your hands. You usually ended up doing it by feel, then using an inspection mirror to see if you did it right. That's the problem with engineers, they don't have to work on the stuff they draw up on paper. Yes, my aircraft was designed on paper, not computers..... #ar
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    10/29/09

    @Barry99705: "Yes, my aircraft was designed on paper, not computers....."

    .... O,O lies! #ar
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    I would love to see a video of this in action #ar
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    Image of Wrathernaut Wrathernaut
    10/27/09

    @jakebathman: Was the second paragraph (with video link) not available when you wrote this? #ar
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    10/27/09

    @Wrathernaut: @Redrum4breakfast: @OfficerMike: @Bryan Tucker: Sorry all, I COMPLETELY missed that link. I must have been a bit distracted last night. #ar
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    10/26/09

    In reply to Petman Walking/Balancing Robot Is Like BigDog's "Human" Master
    I am in no way up on the robotics scene but Boston Dynamics seems to be awfully productive lately. The minute they put arms on these things I'm building a salt water moat around my house. I mean apartment. And its not mine, I just rent. Well, pay some of the rent. #petman
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    Image of Thee Sea Thee Sea
    10/26/09

    In reply to Petman Walking/Balancing Robot Is Like BigDog's "Human" Master
    ...Metal Gear!? #petman
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    Image of eliblack eliblack
    10/26/09

    In reply to Petman Walking/Balancing Robot Is Like BigDog's "Human" Master
    Those are 5.10 Coyote climbing shoes it's wearing. Neat! #petman
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