Frickin’ Lasers

The US Navy is going laser crazy! They want: Solid-State Fiber Laser Free Electron Laser High-Power Microwave Directed Energy Weapons The Revolutionary Approach to Time-Critical Long Range Strike (RATTLRS) Program Next Generation Integrated Power Systems Electromagnetic Railgun Laser-based Landing Aids and probably more. Where are the SWFLs*? Anyway, this is all high on the Office Read more about Frickin’ Lasers[…]

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

These students have built a program that will combine high res pictures of an environment and fuse them with a lower quality video of the same scene, raising the colour depth, resolution, clarity and detail of the scene as well as allowing you to remove objects, edit inline over all angles. It’s very very impressive, Read more about Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene[…]

TinEye – Image search engine

TinEye searches the web based on pictures you upload or link to. It will find the same picture elsewhere and tell you where that is, even if the other picture has been edited. So you can find where else the picture is used and see variations of it all over the web.

Foliage Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (FOPEN)

Foliage Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar Lockheed Martin has developed a radar that strips away foliage and allows you to track targets under the treetops. the dual-band FOPEN system uses low-frequency radio waves to achieve high-resolution penetration of concealed areas –– natural ones like leaves or wood, or man-made camouflage –– with relatively low loss in Read more about Foliage Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (FOPEN)[…]

Scientists closer to invisibility cloak

l This is U.S. Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation’s Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center funded and the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang claims to have manufactured materials that redirect the light around the objects. In the past we’ve seen more of this, of course… Invisible tanks using cameras Light Read more about Scientists closer to invisibility cloak[…]