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Israeli Institute Plans Battlefield Medevac UAVs
2:20AM Gizmodo US Edition | You may think someone over in Israel’s Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies had been watching one too many episodes of The Jetsons, but no… this is a real project. It looks like an Israeli consortium, led by the Fisher Institute, is attempting to put together the world’s first unpiloted battlefield resupply and evacuation aircraft, dubbed “MedUAV.” And as the strangely 1960s sci-fi concept drawing shows, it could take the form of a ducted-fan VTOL air car. More »
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Real-Life Edward Scissorhands Cuts Hair With 10 Scissors At Once
12:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Sorry, Johnny Depp. You were great in the original Edward Scissorhands, but this real life maestro of the blades from Israel puts your whole emo trip through suburbia to shame. And while hairdresser Danny Bargil lacks the hotness of a sidekick like Winona Ryder, and he can’t kill a man with his bare feet a la Adam Sandler as the Israeli commando hairdresser Zohan, he makes up for it with the fact that he’s flinging 10 sharp things at a person’s head and they leave with both ears. Reuters got some video of the man in action, after the jump. More »
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Israeli Military Guardian Vehicle is Like the Batmobile Without Batman Driving
7:00AM Jason Chen | Other than taking obvious influences from the Tumbler from Batman Begins, this Israeli Guardium unmanned patrol shares more in common with the iRobot PackBot than Batman’s roof-hopping car. The Guardium can either be self-controlled or steered by an operator miles away, and is loaded with cameras, night-vision sensors and machine guns. Unlike the PackBot, which demands that a human be in the loop at all times, the Guardium can be autonomous if the need arises. Let’s just hope its programming is really, really good and it doesn’t go off killing because it thought it saw a ghost. [Fox News via NewLaunches] More »
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