DARPA invests in megapixel augmented-reality contact lenses
Posted by admin in Hi-tech on 03. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
The augmented reality future we were long ago promised has been slow to come around, perhaps restrained most by the basic biology of our own eyes, which are unable to properly see detailed images placed very near the pupils. But via technology developed in part with a certain government agency, Washington-based Innovega has created a [...]
Let’s reconstitute humans from genomes launched into space!
Posted by admin in Future, Space on 17. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
Fragmented human genomes could be shipped toward the stars and reconstructed upon their arrival, spawning the first interstellar citizens and avoiding the problems of long-distance space survival. That’s just one idea — proposed by genome pioneer J. Craig Venter — emerging from the field of dreams seeded by DARPA’s 100-Year Starship project. DARPA is collecting [...]
NASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ To Bring Humans to Other Worlds And Leave Them There Forever
Posted by admin in Space on 21. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Mars Mining This Mars miner will probably never go home again. If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower. And like the first pilgrims, Martian explorers might set sail with the knowledge they would never return home. NASA and DARPA have joined [...]
DARPA Wants Roving ‘Smart Cameras’ That Understand What They See
Posted by admin in Electronics on 18. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
The problem with surveillance cameras is that they can see but they can’t think, which means there always has to be a human on the other end making cognitive sense of what’s right in front of the camera. But if we meshed machine vision with visual intelligence, DARPA argues in a solicitation for its new [...]
DARPA Seeks Prosthetics Directly Controllable Through Brain Implants
Posted by admin in Computers, Medicine on 12. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Military Amputees Brian Frasure, a clinical prosthetist and world-class athlete, speaks to the audience on the last day of the Military Amputees Advances Skills Training workshop at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Artificial limbs have advanced quite a bit since the days of the pirate peg leg, but not nearly enough for DARPA. The Pentagon [...]
