Holographic HUD for Rear-View Mirrors

Researchers have now created a holographic HUD, which can be projected on rear mirrors.

Because they have a smaller surface to cover, the HUD systems are a lot less cheaper, while at the same time maintaining their functionality. The compact projection device fits inside an average rear-view mirror.

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Army fuses airborne sensor lab with ground networks

At the Army’s C4ISR On-the-Move Event 2009 in September, Lockheed Martin Corp. demonstrated its new Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory. The AML aircraft, a repurposed Gulfstream III corporate jet, was converted to a test platform for evaluating the integration of multiple intelligence-gathering sensors onboard a single aircraft. The flight team includes analysts who correlate the intelligence data and make it available to ground units over a network connection.

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The Future of Supercomputers is Optical

This week at the Frontiers in Optics conference in San Jose, Jeffrey Kash of IBM Research laid out his vision of the future of supercomputers.

The fastest supercomputer in the world, the Los Alamos National Laboratory's IBM Roadrunner, can perform 1,000 trillion operations per second, which computer scientists call the petaflop scale. Getting up to the next level, the exaflop scale, which is three orders of magnitude faster, will require integrating more optical components to save on power consumption.

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DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent TCP/IP

Arms globocorp Lockheed Martin announced today that it has won a $31m contract from the famous Pentagon crazy-ideas bureau, DARPA, to reinvent the internet and make it more suitable for military use. Microsoft will also be involved in the effort.

The main thrust of the effort will be to develop a new Military Network Protocol, which will differ from old hat such as TCP/IP in that it will offer "improved security, dynamic bandwidth allocation, and policy-based prioritization levels at the individual and unit level".

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Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications

A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously.

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Fish vision discovery makes waves in natural selection

Emory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an animal deleting a molecule to change its visual spectrum.

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Best cyber offense is a good defense, RAND report says

A new RAND Corporation report suggests the U.S. may be better off playing defense and pursuing diplomatic, economic, and prosecutorial efforts against cyberattackers, instead of making strategic cyberwarfare an investment priority.

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NASA surprised with strange ribbon circling solar system

THE NASA spacecraft IBEX is making a map of the edge of the heliosphere, the magnetic boundary formed by the solar wind and interstellar matter at the edge of the solar system. Unexpectedly, IBEX imaged a "bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin" that goes about 80% away around the solar system.

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Barnacles bind to ships using clotlike glue

Hitchhiking on the surface of a boat hull can be a rough ride, but barnacles seem to do it with ease. How are they able to hang on so tightly? Researchers have been studying the composition of super-strong barnacle glue for years, and a new analysis of the cement reveals that it has many of the same properties as a human blood coagulant, factor XIII, which helps to form scabs.

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IBEX Spacecraft Produces First Full Map of Where We Are in the Galaxy

A new sky map shows the region where our solar system bumps up against interstellar boundaries .

The boundaries are defined by our sun's heliosphere -- a protective bubble created by the solar wind that travels outward and collides with incoming interstellar radiation.

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RFID Waves Visualized and Demystified Using a LED Wand

Two Oslo-based design researchers have created a visual model of RFID fields in an effort to show curious designers how RFID looks and works, and help shed light on its functionality.

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Yoctosecond light pulses, and how to create them

The creation of attosecond-scale light pulses (an attosecond is 10-18 s, or a quintillionth of a second, in duration) is an astounding feat, and opens up whole new areas in advanced spectroscopy. But what if we could jump from atto, right past zepto, all the way to yocto?

Yoctosecond (10-24 s, or a septillionth of a second) scale pulses would enable the light-based investigation of structures the size of atomic nuclei. But, spatially, a light pulse a few yoctoseconds in duration is only as long as an atomic nucleus is wide, so how could such a pulse be produced?

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Obama loosens missile technology controls to China

President Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department -- a move critics say will loosen export controls and potentially benefit Chinese missile development.

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TV Stations Start Broadcasting to Mobile Gadgets

A group called the Open Mobile Video Coalition announced Thursday the completion of a standard that will let TV stations use a sliver of the new frequencies that Congress gave them for high-definition broadcasts for broadcasts to wireless devices.

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Glitch delays Ares I-X rocket rollout

A faulty part in the steering system for NASA's newAres I-X rocket has delayed the booster's trek to its Florida launch pad by at least a day as engineers work to fix the glitch.

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Sidekick Disaster Shows Data's Not Safe in the 'Cloud'

Silicon Insider: There's a Dangerous Gap Between Consumers' Expectations and What Supplier Believes They Have to Deliver.

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'Russian NATO' Holds 1st Exercise

The presidents of five ex-Soviet states viewed military drills by thousands of troops in Kazakhstan as the Russian-led security grouping unveiled its new rapid reaction force Oct. 16.

Moscow hopes the new forces will lend teeth to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a loose seven-nation grouping it has touted as a counterweight to the NATO alliance.

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