New Air Traffic Control System For British Military

 

The British military is to get a new air traffic control system named Marshall. The contract has been awarded to Aquila, a joint venture set between Thales and NATS. The system commissioned by the MOD is valued at over £1,4 Billion. The system will cover operation at over 100 locations in the UK and overseas.

Shields for ships More Si Fi to reality

Marine Armor System from Eduardo González on Vimeo.

Another innovation from the sifi era Shields up! well in this case shields down. Marine Armor Systems have a shield system that seals the interior of a ship to protect the crew and bridge form pirates etc. On the push of a button blinds drop over the windows and door sealing off areas of the ship. The blinds come with various levels of protection, at the lower end of the scale they will protect against anything up to .22 caliber at the highest they will protect against anti tank weapons.

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Machine brings heart back to life

 

Heart transplants are usually carried out with hearts from people who are brain dead. Their  circulatory system is still working and blood is still flowing through the heart and receiving oxygen.
    A patient in Australia two months ago received a  donor heart that was technically dead, no blood flowing through it. The heart was placed in a new machine (  "heart-in-a-box".) that revived it by keeping it warm and placing vital fluids inside it. This procedure could make up to 30 percent more hearts available for transplanted and has been welcomed by the  British Heart Foundation.

Source  BBC    http://www.transmedics.com

Cordless Car Battery Charging System.

TDK announce its new electric car charging system designed to charge cars without the need to plug them on. The  system uses TDK magnetic coil technology that will charge the battery up to 10 cm away.
The system will be introduced to the car manufactures in the first half of 2015.

              

Another piece of tech from the world of  science fiction  has now been born, the hoover board from Back to the Future is here.A team from Hendo our now gathering fund at Kickstart  to put the board into production. Follow the Kickstart   link for more info

Now we have the Drone Helicopter

Over the last few years we have all seen the growth in aircraft drones due to their use in recent conflicts. These drones have all been fixed wing aircraft flown primary by the Air Forces of various countries.
Yet back as far as 2001 the US army was interested in the use of drone helicopters for  reconnaissance and the automated delivery of supplies. The US Navy has 19 MQ-8c Fire Scout Helicopter drones on order from Northrop Grumman. this week the Fire Scout completed precision sloped landing trails and will soon be under going sea trials.

 More at   Wikipedia      http://www.upi.com     UPI.com

In Car Ethernet

The time for in car data is fast approaching, Ethernet is now available at speeds of 100mbs to run your cars gadgets. With ever expanding electronic gadgets in your car the need to get the data from the source to the application is requiring more and more cable. Hello Ethernet a twist pair system is now on its way, Ipod,speakers,video,satnav you name it all linked on one circuit and talking to each other.

For more read the source article   Computer world 

X-37B Lands after two year mission

 
The x-37B returned to Earth today 19 October 2014 at Vandenberg Air Force Base  CA USA preforming a successful autonomous landing. Its two year mission 674 days is still unknown to the population in  general. The official Air force web page for the ship state that it is testing technology for the platform.

The craft that looks like a small version of the shuttle and Boeing built is also known as the OTV Orbital Test Vehicle

More info can be read by this google search
Source for this artical USAF , Universe Today ,  eastidahonews.com, wikipedia

Robots to fight Ebola

It may not be surprising in this day and age that scientists want to use robots in the fight against Ebola. Scientists want to use all kinds of robots to do tasks to make ti safer for Doctors and Nurses to treat the disease.
Telepresence robots could be used to allow people to talk to th patient with out actually being there.     Autonomous robots could deliver food and in the worst case bury or cremate the victim. A workshop on the subject has been arranged for the 7th November which is to be co hosted by the White House
Source Computerworld     MSN News

Ubi Voice interactive computer

 The Ubi computer waking up to the phrase 'OK Ubi' (Photo: Paul Ridden/Gizmag)

A computer that only use voice only no screen or input devices has now been offered for general release by Ubi.
The device that plugs into your mains socket and connects to local WIFI, listens for voice commands then searches the cloud for answers which our then delivered by voice.
The Ubi computer is available direct from the Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation for US$299


Read more at  Gizmag  or vist UBI

Brain surgery through the cheek

Five years ago, a team of Vanderbilt engineers wondered: Is it possible to address epileptic seizures in a less invasive way? They decided it would be possible. Because the area of the brain involved is the hippocampus, which is located at the bottom of the brain, they could develop a robotic device that pokes through the cheek and enters the brain from underneath which avoids having to drill through the skull and is much closer to the target area.

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Blood-cleansing “Artificial Spleen” Technology Could Increase Survival Odds for Future Sepsis Patients

DARPA’s Dialysis-Like Therapeutics (DLT) program is looking  to develop integrated, portable and solid technology that would enable widespread deployment of dialysis treatment to fight sepsis.
     While this is primary research for military casualties it also has  civilian  uses. The DTL program has successfully demonstrated one of the first technologies for pathogen removal via blood filtration via an artificial spleen.

Source   DARPA

Future Armored Ground Vehicles

The US agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA) has request company's to come up with a fast agile armored vehicle that can dodge missiles and tank shells. The vehicle should require minimal training of the operator, a basic solider should be able to operate it.

   Full autonomous vehicles are not required  for the project, also required is some type of reactive armour.

More at   DARPA   SKY News

US Navy Test Robotic Boats

The US Navy is testing  a way of swarming enemy ships with robotic boats. Test have be conducted that allow a ship to be screened by software controlled ships, The boats then swam the oppositions ship when  a threat is detected.
     The boats are controlled by the US Navy's Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing (CARACaS) that can convert standard small boats into drones.

More at  CNN  
              engineering.com
See Automated Ships

New underground Trains

A new Tube design has been unveiled by TfL (Transport for London)this is part of a £16Bn investment in the system. The plan is to build 250 trains and distribute them to four lines, the new trains will increase capacity on these lines.

More at    The BBC     londonist.com

Feeling in prosthetic arms

 

Image from the BBC

It is now possible to get you feeling from your prosthetic limb. This is done by feeding the output from sensors in the prosthetic to the remaining nerves in  your arm or leg.  Meanwhile in Sweden  scientists have had success  in attaching prosthetic limbs to the remaining bone to add more control.

More on this at the BBC Health

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Girl Gets 3D printed Hand

One card all banks the plastic card

One piece of plastic instead  of all those others in your wallet YES or NO the time is coming to decide.
  Two new cards that combine all your cards are in the pre-order  stage at a cost of course for full details see  Gizmag

Girl gets 3D printed hand

 
    A young girl from Scotland has been given a artificial hand made by 3D printing. The hand made by an American company cost just £50.

Full story and video here