Raytheon

December 19th 2007

Raytheon’s 360-Degree Image Sensor Provides Unswerving All-Around View

In like very single movie, the ninja outsmarts the security system by waiting until the motorized camera pans the other way. Well what if, asks Raytheon, what if the camera didn’t have to swerve? Parabolic mirrors and other devices have been used to create 360-degree cameras before. (I once shot footage on one in Grand…

Privacy & Security Wilson Rothman Dec 19

November 19th 2007

Raytheon Heals the World, Immunosurveillance Cures Cancer

Here are your science headlines for this lovely Monday morning. Let’s start with a little global healing from your pals at Raytheon, the company best know for making the Phalanx (pictured at left), surveillance devices, and reconnaissance gadgets. Apparently the Green Building Council has awarded Raytheon’s new Wartime Protection Center in Alabama a “silver” badge…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 19

March 11th 2007

Excalibur GPS Guided Artillery: Look Out Above!

You know how there is that option to turn off your phone’s GPS tracking? Now you know why. Hit the jump for my sad list of rejected one-liners. No military entity should be allowed to name their own weapons, ever. Why Osama traded in his pink RAZR. Developed by the guys who still make compasses.…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 11

January 17th 2007

Ray Guns on the Battlefield? Not Too Far Off

Don’t be strapping on that holster for your ray gun just yet, but a couple of weapons mongers are making solid progress toward weapons-grade lasers. Raytheon’s Laser Area Defense System (LADS) can take down a 60mm mortar, acting all like Star Wars and everything. But wait, those zapped mortars weren’t flying through the air—they were…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 17

November 1st 2006

High Tech Cockpit Controls Unmanned Aircraft

It may look like the ultimate gaming rig, but Raytheon’s Universal Control System (UCS) is actually a high tech cockpit for real pilots. It sits them in front of a wrap-around display that makes them feel like running a real plane is just another day of Microsoft Flight Sim. The cockpit gives you the option…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Nov 1

September 1st 2005

Lunar Penguin

Ok, the Moon is first on his list, but since President Bush decided that space exploration is a priority for top US scientists, engineers at MA-based defence contractors Raytheon are now busy working on a robot, cleverly dubbed the Lunar Penguin, that will be able to one day scale the surafce of the Moon using…

Tech News Noah R Sep 1

Raytheon’s 360-Degree Image Sensor Provides Unswerving All-Around View

Raytheon Heals the World, Immunosurveillance Cures Cancer

Excalibur GPS Guided Artillery: Look Out Above!

Ray Guns on the Battlefield? Not Too Far Off

High Tech Cockpit Controls Unmanned Aircraft

Lunar Penguin

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