DARPA rides the terahertz wave
Oh, DARPA. Everything you touch turns to semi-gold. Really, though — DARPA is great because they throw money at practically every cool new technology and even if it doesn’t turn into a neat gun, the...
View ArticleDARPA throws $3.3m at biomimetic chembots
You read that correctly. In yet another freaky-yet-awesome move by DARPA, a team at Tufts University has been awarded a $3.3 million contract to develop a breed of “chemical robots” based on the...
View ArticleDARPA looks to coal for energy solution
The energy debate isn’t going away anytime soon… if ever. Two of the big topics are of course, foreign oil and global warming. We want it here, we want it cheap and we want it clean. The Air Force (as...
View ArticleDarpa developing, yes, a flying car
They killed the electric car—they is no one in particular—but damn it if we’re not gonna see a flying car before this planet’s best and brightest found a space colony on the moon. Yes, Darpa, which...
View ArticleBored scientists create radio-controlled beetles
Nope, your eyes aren’t broken or anything: that’s a beetle with a circuit board snapped into place. It’s the DARPA-funded handiwork of a group of scientists from the University of California, who are...
View ArticleThese boots were made for tracking
Free Black Combat Boots Creative Commons by D Sharon Pruitt DARPA, everyone’s favorite organization that sounds suspiciously like Dharma, is working on tracking sensors that can be embedded into the...
View ArticleHow To Find Those Red Balloons
Update: The challenge has been won by the M.I.T team (see final map below). This morning DARPA launched ten red balloons across the U.S. in a Network Challenge to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the...
View ArticleU.S. military now wants 3D surveillance cameras. Avatar invented 3D, you know.
In a sense, the following story can be summed up thus: the US military wants new, hi-tech equipment. That’s not exactly breaking news, no, but there’s an Avatar connection, so if the world could stop...
View ArticleDarpa wants a real C-3PO to translate for troops Over There
Shocking admission: I’ve never seen a Star Wars movie. Well, that’s not entirely true: I did see Episode One and Episode Three, but I’m pretty sure those don’t really count. (I liked the song “Duel of...
View ArticleRemember Those Red Darpa Balloons? We Helped Find Three Of Them
Remember the DARPA red balloon challenge back in December? DARPA launched ten red balloons across the country and offered $40,000 to the first group of people who could identify the exact locations of...
View ArticleLockheed & Darpa Develop Real Life ‘Aimbot' For Snipers
From one military story to another. It looks like Lockheed and DARPA have jointly developed a system that makes it easier for snipers to pick off their targets. Yes, a real life aimbot of sorta. It’s...
View ArticleDARPA Tries Open-Source, Goes After Professionals For XC2V Combat Support...
DARPA, the Defense Department’s R&D wing, does some pretty amazing stuff. And when they aren’t getting what they want from their engineers, they let others help. Like in the Grand Challenge and...
View ArticleVideo: Unmanned Naval Stealth Fighter's First Flight
The X-47B is a new stealth unmanned aircraft intended for the US Navy. The plane is a large step toward virtual warfare, something claimed to help save lives. Not only does it require no human to fly,...
View ArticleSweet Winning DARPA Combat Vehicle Designs Shown Off
Last month we mentioned how DARPA and Local Motors were trying out a crowdsourcing model for producing a concept combat vehicle. Well, the entries have been vetted and voted on, and they’ve put them...
View ArticleDARPA Wants Full-Disk Encryption For Android, iOS Devices
DARPA has put out a request for full-disk encryption for iOS and Android-based devices. The deal is that the Defense Advances Research Projects Agency wants to have greater choice when it comes to...
View ArticleDARPA Video Shows The Evolution Of The Hummingbot Nano UAV
We’ve been following DARPA’s Nano UAV program since 2009, and it’s really remarkable how it’s gone from clumsy to cool to creepy in just a year and a half. DARPA thinks so too, so they put together a...
View Article“All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.” Wins $50,000 DARPA Shredder Challenge
A San Francisco-based team has just won the DARPA Shredder Challenge. DARPA, the government agency whose work led to the creation of the Internet, challenged the public to reconstruct five shredded...
View ArticleDARPA Contest Winners Prove Shredders Aren't Quite As Safe As You Think
DARPA’s Shredder Challenge, a contest to reconstruct documents from a slurry of shredded paper, has been solved, suggesting that my grandmother may be barking up the wrong tree when she shreds the...
View ArticleDARPA's Cheetah Robot Will Stab You With Its Pointy Legs
Seriously: this is what is going to do our fighting soon. Imagine stand-off situations with this bastard rolling through the door and then skittering across the marble floor of Oslo City Hall straight...
View ArticleHow To Say No, And Other Tips From Inside SRI's Venture Process
Editor’s note: Norman Winarsky is the Vice President of Ventures at research and technology development organization SRI International, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is co-founder...
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