armour
Random Stuff
Eight Examples Of Animals Suited Up For Battle
6:20AM Sean Fallon | Short on soldiers and horses? Why not march into battle with an army of household pets and small woodland creatures? As this Oobject gallery illustrates, suits of armour have been made for the likes of cats, mice and squirrels. [Oobject]
Weapons
IBM Patents Bionic Armour That Gives Humans Ability To Dodge Bullets
11:20AM Sean Fallon | Believe it or not, IBM has filed for a patent on tech that heightens our reflexes so that we could, theoretically, dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix. More »
Weapons
New Military Uniform to Have HUD, Mini-Missile System
5:26AM Jesus Diaz | US soldiers are not the only ones getting advanced uniforms. In fact, Korea may be taking the lead with a new stormtrooper suit that–if goes beyond the vapourware stage–will include every sci-fi technology you can imagine. From a helmet with a heads-up-display to the personal cooling and heating system in the suit itself, and a matching weapon that includes a laser-guided target assessment system to fire, you guessed it, mini-missiles. And that’s just the beginning. More »
Gadgets
$US12,000 Shirt Makes You Bullet-Proof, Smug Looking
4:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | Harrods of London is now selling a $US12,000 anti-ballistic polo shirt designed by Miguel Caballero. Caballero, sometimes called the “Armani of armour” caters to clients such as Prince Felipe of Spain and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The polo, made from ultra-lightweight bulletproof fabric can allegedly protect you from weaponry ranging from a 9mm pistol to an Uzi. Sure it can save you from an assassination attempt, but judging from this picture, it doesn’t save you from looking like a giant douche. [Born Rich] More »
Weapons
Futuristic Dinosaur Eel Fish Armour Would Protect Soldiers With Scales, Sans Smelly Odours
12:00AM Jack Loftus | A team of MIT engineers is hoping to develop tomorrow’s body armour today with a fish whose family tree stretches back 96 million years. Called the Polypterus senegalus, or “dinosaur eel” to layman schlubs like me, this primitive fish still thrives in the muddy rivers of Africa, and has retained a full-body suit of armoured scales that was common on species of fish millions of years ago. For years scientists have known that the eel’s interlocking, millimeters-thick scales were capable of stopping penetrating attacks, but couldn’t figure out why. Now, thanks to nanotechnology and a grant from the U.S. Army (go Joe!), they’ve figured it out. More »
Weapons
US Army Selects Top Inventions That Can Take, Or Save, Your Life
8:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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 armour, 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 »
Gadgets
Electronic Hogu Measures Just How Hard Your Foe Can Beat You Up
9:15PM Addy Dugdale | 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] More »
Science
Glass Micromachine Makes Silk the Same Way Spiders Do
11:20PM Gizmodo US Edition | 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 armour and in medical applications. More »
Gadgets
Body Armour and Fashion Collide in the Urban Security Suit
11:40PM Gizmodo US Edition | 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] galleryPost('urbansecsuit', 3, ''); More »
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