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Powering your iPod with your clothes

Alpha Doggs — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:10:30 -0500

Nature reports that nanotechnology researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working on a shirt that converts the wearer's motion into energy to electronic devices from iPods to wireless devices worn by soldiders on the battlefield. The National Science Foundation is funding the effort, which exploits something called the piezoelectric effect.

That might be a step up even from newfangled devices, such as a combo car/wall charger for iPods and iPhones.

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BBN to equip warfighters with data fast

Alpha Doggs — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:47:52 -0500

A team led by BBN Technologies has been awarded $2.8 million by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop a system that will enable those in battlefield operations to access historical and real-time data regardless of their networked device and available bandwidth. Boeing, the Institute for Human Machine Cognition and Vanderbilt University round out the team.

The prototype system under development, called Quality of Service Enabled Dissemination, or QED, will boast quality-of-service and disruption tolerance capabilities, according to BBN. The system might enable, for example, those on the front line faster access to bandwidth hungry applications such as annotated pictures or maps.

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DARPA looks to adaptive battlefield wireless nets

Alpha Doggs — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:21:50 -0400

From NW's John Cox:

A new Department of Defense project is trying to use cutting-edge wireless research to create a tactical radio net that can adapt to keep soldiers linked with each other on the battlefield.

Project WAND, for Wireless Adaptive Network Development, will exploit commercial radio components, rather than custom ones, and use a variety of software techniques and algorithms, many of them only just now emerging in mature form. These $500 walkie-talkie-size radios will form large-scale, peer-to-peer ad hoc nets, which can shift frequencies, sidestep interference, and handle a range of events that today completely disrupt wireless communications.

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WW3.0: Has your organization ever been the victim of a hacktivism attack?

sumj — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:59:50 -0400

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sumj — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:56:55 -0400

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