Engineering students have created underwear which gives any would-be attacker a 3,800 kilovolt shock.
One of the most brutal and heinous crimes imaginable is rape. An undergarment has been designed to disable the attacker with a powerful electric jolt, while letting the cops know where an attack has occurred using GPS coordinates sent by text message.
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Virtual fencing promises radical transformation by removing the mile upon mile of barbed wire stretched across the landscape.
European farmers claimed North America with fences when they first arrived. Fences were the physical manifestation of a belief in private ownership and the proper use of land — enclosed, utilized, defended — that continues to shape the American way of life, its economic aspirations, and even its form of government. (Videos)
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2012 was a bad year to have other people say you want your bosses job
A lot has changed in 2012. More than you probably realize. Here is a list of thirteen things that you might have used or done in 2011 that you probably didn’t have to use or do in 2012.
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Academic and industry researchers have been working for decades on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters — robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guidance. Dozens of research teams have competed in a series of autonomous-helicopter challenges posed by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI); progress has been so rapid that the last two challenges have involved indoor navigation without the use of GPS.
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As smartphones explode in popularity, augmented reality is starting to move from novelty to utility.
Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app in 2009 that blurred the line between the real and the virtual. If you held your handset up and looked at the world through its screen, you’d see little floating tags containing the names, user ratings, and other details of businesses around you.
BioHarness sensors from Zephyr Technologies can be worn as a patch or as a strap.
Wireless carriers are fueling the boom of a new generation of mobile technology for remotely monitoring family members and others who need to be tracked.
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China is now one step closer to become the top economic and military superpower in the world: their Beidou geo-positioning system is now fully armed and operational.
But why is this important?
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ShotSpotter will precisely and instantaneously locate shooters.
Not a single person reports the gunshots ring out in the dead of night. Yet police know exactly where the shots came from, even before they arrive on the scene.
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Antarctic fur seal
The Antarctic fur seals’ remarkable homing instinct, which is thought to be the most accurate of any sea mammal, allows the creatures to return to within a single body length of the spot where they were born to give birth to their own pups.
Information collected by a car block box intended to help improve federal safety standards, but increasingly it is being used in court cases.
If you are in a serious car accident and are unfortunate enough to land in court afterwards, the the star witness against you may not be an eyewitness or even a human being, it could be your car.
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
The Track It is a GPS (Global Positioning System) driven locator unit that comes with corresponding chips that allow you to track items/things of importance. Design intent is to provide a convenient handheld portable unit that easily locates items frequently misplaced or lost, saving the consumer time and frustration.
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Kinze Manufacturing’s autonomous row crop technology.
Kinze Manufacturing hopes to do for tractors what Roomba has done for vacuum cleaners.
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