Posts Tagged ‘defense’

the INTIMIDATOR

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

the INTIMIDATOR
Wow! I mean really, wow!
It is so cool to see that there is actually room in this world for someone to create such art and actually be able to sell and (hopefully) make a good living out of it.
Now, OK, I can see some negative waves heading this way for the fact that it can be disassembled to create a gun, but take a look at the guy’s other work.
I really wish I had the money…
I wonder if airport security would figure that as a threat or not.
Anyway, a most marvelous piece of interactive art.

Find out more about GarE Maxton’s work here.

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Hunter cluster bombs

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

The US Air Force is looking for people to develop a new type of cluster bomb where each individual bomblet, or submunition, can identify and lock onto targets as far a 5km away and then persue them for at least 5 minutes.

The full DOD request for submissions can be viewed here.

It does rather raise the question of how “clever” the software is that decides what to hunt down and kill and what not to.  I can’t see that in real world situations it would be very easy to reliably differentiate between civilian and military vehicles.

As a further indication of the US DOD gung-ho approach to all things military the US is refusing to sign up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions - which will be signed by 109 other countries - because it claims it’s weapons are intelligent enough not to be a problem.  I’d like to see a five star general drive his SUV along a road populated with military vehicles during a test of one of these weapons.

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Weapons Against Robots

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008


It sounds like something Wil Smith’s “I Robot” character would find of interest.  But this is no fiction, it’s a real world company recently set up by dot com teenage millionaire Ben Way, now in his 20s.

The very slick but content light WAR Defense website has some rather groovy doors-meets-simcity background music and a few pointers on what is under development.

The ELECTRIC STORM-AX1 for example is “A simple to use microwave high energy device that disrupts and destroys nearby electrical systems”.  And the “AI Robo-virus real time infiltration, adaptation and reporting” product sounds just the thing for dealing with the hostile robot hordes of the future.

Yes, it’s all airware at present, and you may never see any actual products you can actually hold and threaten an AI with, but I, for one, am appreciative of the tiny windows on the future such ventures and visionaries provide us with.

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