Nato is poised to bring down Muammar Gaddafi with Apache helicopters. Helicopters, did you say? How passé, at least compared with the dwarf drones, video monocles, and quantum dots on the Pentagon’s latest wishlist.
Never let it be said that small isn’t powerful. A Sonoma County, California, company has just built perhaps the smallest drone that can kill you.
Commandos used to strap Toughbooks to their chests to watch footage from the drone circling above. Now, the video is beamed straight to their eyes. Spencer Ackerman reports from the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa.
Scents that make you trackable, indoors and out. Nanocrystals that stick to your body, and light up on night-vision goggles. Miniradar that maps your location on Google Earth. You can run, but you’ll learn it’s hard to hide from a new range of military tech.
A game developer has created a replica of Osama bin Laden’s compound for a new level of the first-person shooter video game Counter-Strike.
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