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more about #darpa more comments → Michai: I think they may have overlooked roadside bombs..? more » yantelope: Oh man, I'm glad to see DARPA plays Red Alert. more » Odin: Hmm. I'm going to need a very fast car, a driver and a gun capable of taking down weather balloons at a distance. Social networking or a man with a ri... more » Platypus Man: Couldn't help it... #darpanetworkchallenge more » DonLuc: We must hurry to find these! THERE IS A LITTLE BOY INSIDE OF THE BALLOONS! #darpanetworkchallenge more » AmphetamineCrown: I dunno about you chaps, but I'm hanging a giant red balloon outside my house on December 1. #darpanetworkchallenge more » yayforjam: Interesting..... There was a giant red balloon on the side of Rt. 80 East in NJ this morning, somewhere around exit 53... I'd be more specific but I'm... more » Sticks Calhoun: I will not settle for anything less than 99 red balloons! Or anything more, come to think of it. #darpanetworkchallenge more » psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!: Rosa! Como e voce? Agradavel para ve lo ter um cranio em seu escritorio. Voce no estado ao redor por um quando. Voce e um de meus editores favoritos a... more » mattycakes: SKYNET! SKYNET! SKYNET! Is that enough shouting? P.S. This new font looks gorgeous compared to whatever we had before. #militaryfriendlyinternet more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Teh agreed more » Nick: hmmmmm more » NeoAkira: Reading the title, I thought we were talking about a full-sized car. Man am I disappointed. more » Sakurafire: Now only if the explosives didn't blow when it landed... Oh wait... I'm thinking ahead here. more » anexanhume: I just want to see a video of enemy combatants looking quizzically over the device, and just as they are about to pick it up POW RIGHT IN THE KISSER. more » -
#military
DARPA's Iron Curtain Detects, Explodes RPGs From a Moving Humvee
DARPA's created what it's calling the Iron Curtain, which is a system that mounts on top of a Humvee and takes out any rockets shot in its direction. It's pretty nuts. 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
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 » -
#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 » -
#cyborgs
Insect Cyborgs Could Replace Smoke Detectors, Rescue Earthquake Victims
The Pentagon is known for its ominous pet projects, but here's one we can honestly say doesn't have us losing any sleep: Cyborg crickets. More » -
#robots
DARPA Stops Trying Not to Be Terrifying, Funds Chainsaw-Wielding, Flesh-Eating Robot
You don't have to be tinfoil underwear type to get uneasy about some of the bizarre projects that DARPA throws its weight behind. But the organic matter-consuming EATR robot? Oh. God. More » -
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#robots
Pentagon's Robot Hummingbird Christened "Nano Air Vehicle"
The Pentagon's wacky sci-fi department DARPA has been working on robotic hummingbird-based drones to serve as miniature spies. They're not nearly as agile or adorable as real hummingbirds, but DARPA is well on their way to achieving that dream. More » -
#science
Obama Pledges 3%+ of GDP—as Much as Defense Spending—to Scientific Research
This morning, Obama made a huge pledge to focus more money on scientific research—more than the US spent during the space race. In fact, it's almost as much as we spend on defense. More » -
#ohscience
Scientists Demo Living, Remote-Control Flying Cyborg Beetles
Berkeley University scientists demoed a remote-control Rhinoceros beetle at a conference this week, repeatedly flying the cyborgian creature into observers' faces while screaming "WE ARE GODS! WE HUNGER FOR BLOOD SACRIFICE! More » -
#satellites
Pentagon Mitex Satellites Are the First to Actively Spy... On Other Satellites!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If we're talking spy satellites, the answer this week became "U.S. satellites," two of which completed a first-of-its kind maneuver that had wide-ranging ramifications for all satellites currently in orbit. Update. More » -
#bloodyhell
Military Developing Blood Farming Machine, Zombie Apocalypse Coming Soon
This looks like the beginning of a George Romero's film, but it's real. It seems like one of the US Army's X-Files technologies is coming to us sooner than most skeptics expected: DARPA is developing now a portable blood farming system that could infinitely produce universal donor red cells from umbilical cord blood, right there in the battlefield. And yes, there's exactly where things go really wrong and soldiers are transformed into mad, blood-seeking, fresh-human-biting but really lovely zombies, ready to spread some kind of weird blood disease all over the world. More » -
#medical
DARPA's Acoustic Coagulation Cuff Stops Internal Bleeding with Sound Waves
Internal bleeding is bad, bad news, especially if you're on the battlefield and far away from a hospital. That's why the military is very interested in any technology that can help stop internal bleeding that can be applied by people other than doctors. And they may have come upon a pretty amazing solution: an ultrasound cuff that uses sound waves to stop internal bleeding. Amazing. More » -
#darpa
DARPA's Secret 'Gandalf' Project Busts Terrorists With Their Own Portable Devices
The new 'Gandalf' project launched by DARPA is classified, so there isn't much in the way of details, but it seems that the goal is to use a special set of "handheld devices" to track targets of interest using "radio frequency geolocation." Spy planes and drones are already capable of similar functions, but this new portable system would allow undercover operatives to track targets on the ground without broadcasting their intentions to every terrorist within a hundred miles. I would have thought this sort of operation was going on already, but if we can bust bin Laden when he calls out for sex chats or listens to New Kids on a portable radio it is better late than never. [FBO via Danger Room] -
#crazyideas
DARPA Working on a Submersible Aircraft That Can Go From Air to Sea
DARPA is pumping money into developing a submersible aircraft: a vehicle that can fly in the air and dive straight into the water, becoming a submarine (kind of like this one). Badass! More »
