Some of the Navy’s top minds sailed into New York today, and brought with them a literal boatload of gadgets: spray-on armor; remote control rifles; camera phones that can read Arabic and Farsi; and this drone to the left, the Seaglider, which can swim for months at a time. The Office of Naval Research docks […]
May 2004
Since early April, U.S. commanders in Iraq have been vowing to “kill or capture” the renegade cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Now, they appear to be backing off of that promise. The Times is reporting that American forces and Sadr’s guerillas have struck a deal to end the fighting in the holy cities of Najaf and Kufa. […]
It may not be as sexy as liquid armor or soldier-sized scarab shells, but the “Dragon Skin” bulletproof vests sound damn tough. According to Defense Review, the Skin is basically your standard body armor, laced with silver-dollar sized ceramic discs. These are configured lover the vest ike scales (hence the “Dragon” sobriquet). And they make […]
Waking up with his wife dead was only the beginning of Steve Kurtz’s troubles. Within a few days of her untimely passing, the FBI had raided his Buffalo home. Health workers dressed in hazmat moon suits had turned the place into a quarantine zone. Now, in Kurtz’s livelihood may be in jeopardy, too. And let’s […]
Back to Iraq’s Chris Allbritton has only been in Baghdad for a few days. And he’s already in the thick of it. He e-mails friends to say: “Nasty car bomb today at about 8:15 a.m. Maybe 100 m from my hotel. Im fine, but I was in the Internet caf and every wall and window […]
