Read more DARPA stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/14433/darpa.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:41:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/59064/pentagon-project-aims-to-create-telepathic-troops.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Pentagon has launched a project officials hope will help soldiers of the future read each other's minds on the battlefield, Wired reports. DARPA—dubbed the military's "mad scientist" division—has been given $4 million to develop technology that can detect and analyze brain waves that precede specific speech. Scientists...http://www.newser.com/story/59064/pentagon-project-aims-to-create-telepathic-troops.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 15 May 2009 8:40:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54463/tiny-new-fibers-draw-power-from-wind-flowing-blood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have developed electricity-generating fibers that can be embedded in clothing and other materials and draw power from the smallest of movements, LiveScience reports. The zinc oxide nanowires are as small as 1/5,000th the width of a human hair and produce energy when they vibrate, even from blood flowing...http://www.newser.com/story/54463/tiny-new-fibers-draw-power-from-wind-flowing-blood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 26 Mar 2009 11:50:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/43773/pentagon-aims-for-target-seeking-bullet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Pentagon wants to develop a bullet that can change course in midflight to seek its target, Wired reports. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency yesterday committed $22 million to producing the superbullet—"an actively controlled .50 caliber projectile that uses information for real time directional flight control"—which would...http://www.newser.com/story/43773/pentagon-aims-for-target-seeking-bullet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Nov 2008 11:52:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/26658/what-we-can-learn-from-being-dog-tired.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAlaskan sled dogs racing for days on end don’t get tired out the way a human runner would, the New York Times reports, and researchers eager to imitate this fatigue resistance in people—particularly soldiers—say it’s because they’re somehow able to change their metabolism. “Suddenly they throw a switch—...http://www.newser.com/story/26658/what-we-can-learn-from-being-dog-tired.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 May 2008 14:33:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23794/pentagon-inventing-group-hits-50-looks-to-next-strides.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA small Defense Department agency credited with inventing the Internet and rockets that sent men to the moon is turning 50, the Washington Post reports, and is fine-tuning its next innovations. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's work spans biology, satellites and aircraft; it has no permanent labs and its...http://www.newser.com/story/23794/pentagon-inventing-group-hits-50-looks-to-next-strides.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Apr 2008 19:15:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/12951/building-a-computer-that-learns-what-you-want.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWouldn't it be nice if your computer could figure out what you wanted it to do? That dream just might be approaching reality, thanks to a project called CALO that aims to teach computers to understand users' intentions, according to the MIT Technology Review. "If CALO succeeds, it'll be quite...http://www.newser.com/story/12951/building-a-computer-that-learns-what-you-want.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 01 Dec 2007 6:26:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/10955/carnegie-mellon-wins-2m-in-robot-car-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA robot car built by Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors beat out ten others to win a race for self-driving vehicles, race officials announced today. The cars had 6 hours to complete a 60-mile course—including missions like parking and merging into traffic—in pursuit of a $2 million...http://www.newser.com/story/10955/carnegie-mellon-wins-2m-in-robot-car-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 04 Nov 2007 23:02:43 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/10826/robots-start-your-engines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome of the most high-tech vehicles in the world will compete for big money by zipping around a race course tomorrow, all without one low-tech component—a human driver. Eleven robotic vehicles will race in a simulated city environment at a former Air Force base in California, Forbes reports. The...http://www.newser.com/story/10826/robots-start-your-engines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Nov 2007 12:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/9071/seals-to-get-swimming-gizmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNavy SEALs will be swimming to their targets up to 150% faster when they get a new Pentagon gizmo called a PowerSwim. It looks like a mini-glider that attaches to a diver's legs, Popular Mechanics reports. SEALs reportedly take about 2 hours to master it; they have to learn a...http://www.newser.com/story/9071/seals-to-get-swimming-gizmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Oct 2007 18:08:24 CDT