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Army iPod Translator coming to Civilian World

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2008-01-29 19:06:49 by James in Coolest Gadgets
...civilian version that will enable travelers to use similar technology to make their way around locations they are travelling in and blend deeper into the culture No word on price, but were betting itll make its way to downloading on iTunes really soon Virtual demo can be seen here . Pressy idea : Educational Toys Related Posts The...
 
 
 
 
 
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Buy Your Own V22, Kinda: Bell 609 Civilian Tiltrotor Gets Rolled-Out [Tiltrotor]

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2008-07-17 05:58:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...civilian tiltrotor for real. Looking and flying like a smaller cousin of the military V22 Osprey, also a Bell vehicle, the 609 will undoubtedly please millionaire business people since it can perform all the rooftop-landing duties of a normal helicopter, but flies twice as fast and can fly 9 passengers up to 25,000 feet altitude. Plus, it'd...
 
 
 
 
 
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GelSpray Liquid Bandage Developed for Military

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2008-02-08 13:50:30 by Josh in Medgadget
...civilian wounds. Much like epoxy is dispensed in household kits, the dressing is applied with a dual syringe that releases two polymer ingredients. These polymers react rapidly upon mixing to form a gel-based dressing that frontline combat soldiers can apply to their own wounds. The dressing conforms to the wound geometry, adheres to intact...
 
 
 
 
 
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China to build 97 regional airports by 2020

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2008-02-13 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...civilian airports at the end of 2006, with about 45 of the largest shown on the map up top Projected increases between now and 2020 of 15% annually for cargo and 11.4% annually for passenger traffic will raise the number of Chinese airports with over 30 million passengers a year from three to 13 For reference, the U.S. had 3,364 airports at...
 
 
 
 
 
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A Leather MacBook Air Sleeve?! Yowza

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2008-03-17 05:30:45 by geeksugar in geeksugar -- Geek is chic.
...Civilian Lab. Soft black supple leather in the style of the now-infamous Manila folder hugs your sexy machine to make it tough and yes, even sexier. Civilian lab took the concept of something that was cute and kitschy the Air Mail's manila folder sleeve and vamped it up by just changing the material and the color. Yes, MacBook Air you do look...
 
 
 
 
 
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Naming the Dead The search for John, Jane and Baby Doe

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2008-04-17 17:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...civilian dispatcher with the Quincy, Mass., police department. Traycie Sherwood of Richmond, Mo., joined when her adoptive mother died and she went online searching for her birth mother. Daphne Owings, a 45-year-old mother of two in Mount Pleasant, S.C., needed something to take her mind off the war when her husband was sent to Iraq. Carol...
 
 
 
 
 
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Dual Vertical LCD Monitor Converts Your Rack into a Transformer

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2007-07-16 15:23:30 by Admin in Gadgets4U
...civilian hardware manufacturers realized that even non-military sometimes takes a beating and stopped making laptop LCD hinges out of crappy plastic, but I digress. As you can see from the picture, the RFT-2L19 (catchy name, huh) is primarily designed to be used in a rack mount, but the NLS website does mention that its compatible with some...
 
 
 
 
 
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Hello Kitty AR-15 - evil black rifle meets cute and cuddly

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2008-01-04 18:54:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
...civilian hands. They identify "evil features" they can use to generically classify these "military style" weapons in sweeping terms. Of course these features, such as plastic pistol grips, barrel shrouds, and bayonet lugs have absolutely nothing to do with the firearms potential lethality in the real world and are merely cosmetic features....
 
 
 
 
 
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Night Vision For Any Car: FLIR PathfindIR [Cars]

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2008-01-04 22:28:23 by posted by Pantha in
...civilian hands. The PathfindIR is their first infrared night vision adaptable for any car, although they'll be demo'ing at CES in a BMW. The camera (below) gets mounted in a grill, and the AV output hooks into any LCD and even some dashboard nav systems. The video looks to be a relatively low res 320 x 240, with a wide 36º H x 27º V field...