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The Earth’s lurches are erratic, so we don’t even know when the next one is needed.

But don’t expect the V-280 or SB-1 to hit battlefields until after 2030 — unless their builders find other customers first.

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Scientists may soon be able to alter your skin and hair color.

Nice

Put yourself in the Pentagon – it’s “take a random civilian to work” day or something. You’re sitting with an Army general brooding over future land wars, as is their wont.

“Our combat vehicles need to be tougher to take the big hits from new weaponry!” he says.

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“Imagine if you were in a zoo, and there was a lion on the other side of the glass that you could have the sensation of touching.”

Google has had a penchant for far out tech that never reaches the market. Here’s the latest.

Hmmm; hope others are seeing this. Imagine a suit/ gear that makes soldiers unstoppable.

The demonstration is quite the spectacle, but maybe not as dangerous as it looks.

Cool

The Army and Marine Corps’ next-generation ground combat vehicle could be designed to avoid threats rather than withstand them.

To that end, eight organizations received contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to join the Ground X-Vehicle Technology program, where DARPA intends to create a nimble, go-anywhere conveyance that will be hard for enemies to find or catch.

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A invenção é uma alternativa aos painéis fotovoltaicos tradicionais, que são grandes e pesados.

As empresas italianas Area Industrie Ceramiche e REM desenvolveram a Tegola Solare, uma telha cer mica com células fotovoltaicas integradas. É uma alternativa sustentável que não atrapalha a estética original das telhas, como acontece muitas vezes com os painéis fotovoltaicos tradicionais, que são grandes e pesados.

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