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USAF Augmented Reality Recruitment...

USAF Augmented Reality Recruitment

| August 9, 2010 | 84 Views |

The U.S Air Force has developed a mobile recruiting center that uses 3-D video and augmented reality to immerse prospective enlistees in simulated military missions. The recruitment center, known as Command Center Alpha, made its debut on April 22 in Florida, and has since made visits to Indianapolis 500, the Ocean City Air Show, and Nashville’s Country Music Association Music...

RAPS Remote Auxiliary Power System...

RAPS Remote Auxiliary Power System

| July 6, 2010 | 190 Views |

There are several devices that are able to charge your gadgets on-the-go, but what do Military Special Forces do when far from an electrical outlet? Utilize a tool inspired by Bat Man. RAPS Remote Auxiliary Power System The Remote Auxiliary Power System (RAPS) – developed at an Air Force research lab in Dayton, Ohio – is a grappling hook that safely conducts electricity...

Top Digital E-Readers...

Top Digital E-Readers

| July 2, 2010 | 230 Views |

Despite what the media would have us to believe, E-readers aren’t just Kindles, Nooks, Sony Readers and iPads, there are in fact, a whole host of other e-readers out there from the basic Kobo to more feature packed Entourage Edge. Here’s a list of some of the best E-readers available to date (in no particular order). Best Digital E-Readers Entourage eDGe Entourage eDGe E-Reader...

iPhone 4G Unveiled...

iPhone 4G Unveiled

| June 9, 2010 | 256 Views |

So it’s finally here. After all the hype, creative PR (mistake my a**), and law suits that have become entwined to the saga, it didn’t come as much of a surprise to see Steve Jobs unveil Apples new iPhone 4G at the WWDC Keynote, June 7th. So what does the new iPhone – set for release 24th June – have in store for its users? First off, the device runs on the more...

Emergency Power Source Uses Sodium Or Ur...

Emergency Power Source Uses Sodium Or Urine

| May 10, 2010 | 300 Views |

South Korean battery makers have developed a renewable battery charger based on 2,000 year old technology that generates power from saltwater or urine. The power generated by the portable emergency power source is sufficient to power a laptop for more than four hours, claim the maker. MetalCell was designed for military use. The growing number of high-tech devices being used on the...

Cobra Gold 2010 Vids and Pics...

Cobra Gold 2010 Vids and Pics

| February 21, 2010 | 884 Views |

Cobra Gold 2010 was our second year sponsoring events held by MCCS. We were able to offer several great prizes to our military men and women in uniform as a sign of our thanks for what they do. In total over $4,000 in prizes were raffled, free all-inclusive golf tournament, and a free pizza party (with soda and beer included) to watch the Super Bowl. For those of you who could not make...

Video Streaming Solutions For iPhone...

Video Streaming Solutions For iPhone

| February 17, 2010 | 712 Views |

Streaming video’s from the Internet to your iPhone – or iPod touch – is made easy with thanks to sites such as Youtube.Mobile. But if your favorite clips or movies aren’t readily available from a streaming website, you’ll no doubt find that keeping numerous video files on your iPhone’s hard drive is a storage hogging practice. Luckily there some great solutions to...

Alienware M11x Portable Gaming...

Alienware M11x Portable Gaming

| February 15, 2010 | 1,186 Views |

Unveiled the CES 2010, Alienware is redefining gaming with Dell Computers. To have a powerful enough rig, usually meant bulky computer gear that came with a hefty price tag as well. However, with the launch of the new M11x Ultra Portable Gaming Laptop, that has all changed! Regardless of where you are deployed, you can take hardcore gaming power with your on your travels. Ultra Mobile...

Gesture Control For Cell Phones...

Gesture Control For Cell Phones

| January 20, 2010 | 505 Views |

Researchers at the Tokyo University have developed a touch-less interface that can track the 3D motion of a human finger. The new gesture interface was developed by Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro and has been dubbed the “Vision-Based Input Interface”. Touchless Interface For Smart Phones Right now the technology can only be applied to a handful of cell phones...

Portable USB Battery Chargers...

Portable USB Battery Chargers

| December 28, 2009 | 1,091 Views |

‘Gadgets’ were likely top of the wish-list for most tech-minded geeks this Christmas, me included. And thankfully, Santa out did himself this year – with portable USB chargers. USB Wrist Band Charger First off, my house mate received a USB Wrist Band Battery able to charge a number of portable devices on the go. This Dragon-Ball-Z-esque wrist band charges via USB...

Increase USB 3G Wi-Fi Reception With Coo...

Increase USB 3G Wi-Fi Reception With Cooking Pot

| December 24, 2009 | 1,261 Views |

Over time, we’ve features a few articles with tips and tricks to help improve your Wi-Fi signal/reception, and now here’s the latest hack that utilizes nothing more than a kitchen cooking pot to enhance the reception on a 3G Wi-Fi USB dongle. Looking at the nifty software you can see that the actual download speed increases considerably when the 3G Wi-Fi stick is placed...

U.S Army Universal Remote...

U.S Army Universal Remote

| December 20, 2009 | 926 Views |

The U.S. Army has been testing a new ‘universal remote’ to give troops complete control over drones, robots and surveillance equipment, in one simple Common Controller. The Common Controller device currently controls the Class I Unmanned Aerial System (aka the “flying beer keg“), the Multifunctional Utility/Logistics Equipment vehicle (a robotic cart) and the Small...

Fring Free Video Calls...

Fring Free Video Calls

| December 4, 2009 | 429 Views |

I love to feature quirky useful applications that can be used by everyone, on an everyday basis. That’s why I posted about the increasingly popular Fring application that allows free Voice over Internet Protocol calls cross-platform , on pretty much any smartphone handset. Well it seems there was good reason for me to jump on the Fring bandwagon, as the company have just announced...

Intel Reader Photographs Text For Voice ...

Intel Reader Photographs Text For Voice Playback

| November 24, 2009 | 662 Views |

A new wave of e-readers is lurking on the horizon. And Intel seem to be one of the first pushing the wave. After being tested on more than 400 visually-impaired and blind users, Intel’s ‘Reader for the Visually Impaired’ has surpassed it’s concept stages and is now on sale. Using an Atom processor, 5-megapixel camera, and Intel’s Linux-based Moblin OS,...

Fring Free VoIP Application...

| November 18, 2009 | 925 Views |

Fring is an easy-to-use, cross platform application that enables users to make Free VoIP on iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android and Symbian cell phones. Fring features support for the most popular VoIP applications including AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, Twitter, and Skype and SIP setups and of course, it works over EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi wireless networks. Making free calls over a...

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