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Bamford DRX Army Navy Watches revisit the child in your bravado
Giving time an impetus is something of extreme importance, for both youngsters and grown men. There lies a fine intersection in the phase between the two and for such are the Bamford DRX Army Navy Watches. Born of collaboration between King Features Syndicate and Darren Romanelli, these watches are a new face of Rolexes in…
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US Army develops undies which monitors the soldiers vitals
U.S. military seem to be smitten by fancy technology at the moment for they have been reported to be developing on digital ‘smart underwears’ capable of monitoring a soldier’s vital statistics such as heart rate, skin temperature, respiration, and heart rate. We have seen smart TVs. Phones and even thermostats but smart undies are definitely…
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Victorinox’s $3000 Swiss Army Knife tempts with 1TB Flash Memory
If you want 1TB memory capacity, settle for something like an external hard drive. You can enjoy as much as you want with those. Then if you want to go on and demand all of this in a small device then the options narrow down significantly. And finally when you make the decision to have…
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The Prism 200c backpack radar looks through walls
Seeing through walls isn’t limited to mutants anymore, and isn’t so much of a super-human ability either now. Cambridge Consultants, a British firm recently pulled the veil of a device that lets you do just that, see through walls. Called the Prism 200c, the device is basically a backpack-mounted radar that was developed for law…
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US Army introduces $35,000 rifle called the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System
There’s no frill intended in the extension of names, especially of modern weaponry but that belief is countered when one hears about the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System. The awesomeness of this rifle is its projection of small grenades that automatically detonate in mid-air. It has an accuracy of 1-meter over a distance of…
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Robotic exoskeleton will make soldiers power lifters
We’ve seen how mechanical exoskeletons help those with physical impediments cope with their daily activities before. However, with the development of the Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) exoskeleton there’s a lot more that can be done, especially as far as soldiers are concerned. They can carry heavier loads of up to 200 lbs. It can…
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U.S. Army gears up to protect our environment with 4,000 electric vehicles
In this Green Age, it’s not only the green hued uniform that will render a green touch to the U.S. Army. It’s the (possible) acquisition of 4,000 neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs), the largest acquisition in the entire country that brings the Army under the green scan. And this is just a fraction of the whole…
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Armored fish skin inspiration for US Army uniform
The armor of the African fish Polypterus senegalus is so effective that it sports the best of the best in body armor because it is a composite of several materials lined up in a certain way. Now a team of engineers has dissected the aquatic armor, figuring out how it works in an effort to…
