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• DARPA projects for 2010

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 632
  DARPA project solicitations for 2010 SB101-001 Development of Robust, Effective, Inexpensive, Flexible Water and Oxygen Barriers for Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (FOLEDs) SB101-002 Enabling Effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems by Sensing Affect SB101-003 Therapeutic Hypothermia for ...
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• 10 Machines That Have Taken On Important Human Roles [Tgif]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
                            One idea behind a “cyborg life” is that we look to machines to take on critical, physical roles. Read more: 10 Machines That Have Taken On Important Human Roles [Tgif]
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• Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 583
  From Wired : The Pentagon’s mad science division has a new way to deal with the 70,000+ troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury: freeze ‘em. Darpa, the military’s far-out research arm, is looking for research projects that would create a “therapeutic hypothermia device” to prevent traumatic ...
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• Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains

  
  Wired: Danger Room — Authority: 129
  The Pentagon’s mad science division has a new way to deal with the 70,000+ troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury: freeze ‘em. Darpa, the military’s far-out research arm, is looking for research projects that would create a “therapeutic hypothermia device” to prevent traumatic brain injuries ...
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• DARPA: Inventing This Side Of The Impossible -- A Commentary

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  The A160 hummingbird, just one of many DARPA project that have found military or commercial use (Image: DARPA) From New Scientist: ON 6 December 1957 a hollow aluminium sphere the size of a small melon burst from a blazing fireball, rose a mere metre or so above Florida before landing with a thump. The US was in ...
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• Single-wing flight based on maple seed aerodynamics

  
  Hack a Day — Authority: 683
  The Samara Micro-Air-Vehicle is a product of over three years of work at the University of Maryland’s Aerospace Engineering Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory. The Samara is an applicant in the DARPA nano air vehicle program . Unlike the ornithopter we saw in July , this vehicle uses only one wing for flight. A small ...
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• NSF backs development of laser-guided robot wheelchairs

  
  Engadget — Authority: 877
  Its been well over a year since we last saw the laser-guided, self-docking wheelchair developed by folks at Lehigh University, and now the team is back with an altogether more ambitious project. According to associate professor John Spletzer, the recipient of a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science ...
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• NSF backs development of laser-guided robot wheelchairs

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
  It’s been well over a year since we last saw the laser-guided, self-docking wheelchair developed by folks at Lehigh University, and now the team is back with an altogether more ambitious project. Continued here: NSF backs development of laser-guided robot wheelchairs
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• Introducing DARPA

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Dear Readers, Today is Zero Hedges ten month anniversary.  What started off as an experiment in focused distributed content has become a site which has clocked over 30 million hits, has over five hundred thousand recurring monthly readers, and touches on virtually every aspect of economics, finance and capital ...
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• How Can Government Spark Innovation?

  
  BusinessWeek.com -- Technology — Authority: 759
  Alec Ross, senior advisor on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, discusses how governments at home and abroad can fuel inventive thinking. Companies such as Google and Cisco, he says, have gained from public funding
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• Deep Inside DARPA

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 130
  Dr. James Hughes interviews Michael Belfiore on his book (The Department of Mad Scientists) about DARPA.
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• Walrus Heavy-Lift Blimp Rises, Falls… Rises?

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 574
  [by John MacNeill ] Goo goo g’joob! In April 2005, “ USN, DARPA See Blimps & HULAs Rising ”, looked at a range of projects on the drawing board, including the Walrus heavy-transport blimp (that’s “heavy” as in “1-2 million pounds”) which offered the potential for a faster and more versatile ...
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• Paracast’s Tribute To Mac Tonnies and Project Kugelblitz

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  Gene Steinberg and David Biedny celebrate the life of Fortean/science-fiction writer Mac Tonnies on the November 1st, 2009 Paracast with guests Greg Bishop, Patrick Huyghe, Paul Kimball and Nick Redfern, people who were close friends or worked with Tonnies on various projects. A very touching send-off for ...
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• Pentagon Unveils New Chembot

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 142
  via cnet The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conference (the ...
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• DARPA Network Challenge: Celebrating 40 Years of Internet

  
  ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network — Authority: 461
  On October 29, 1969 at 10:30PM, UCLA student Charley Kline sent the letters “LO” from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park using the ARPANET. Forty years later, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is celebrating the birth of the Internet with a contest that tests its ...
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• Fully Autonomous Audi TTS to Race at Mad Pikes Peak Rally Circuit [Cars]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
      Forget the Darpa’s urban challenge . This fully automated Audi TTS—equipped with GPS, sensors, and guidance systems—is set to race on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a crazy 19.99-kilometer rally race circuit with 156 turns. Read more from the original source: Fully Autonomous Audi TTS to ...
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• "And here is a red balloon.. I think of DARPA and note its exact coordinates"

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  "To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge .... The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of ten moored, 8 foot, red weather balloons located at ten fixed locations in the continental United States. Balloons will be in readily accessible locations and ...
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• Space Review: Augustine, Robotics and Distributed Satellites

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 489
  The Space Review has four new essays this week: The Planetary Society’s Louis Friedman writes an open letter to Obama urging the President to calls the Augustine commission report into and a blueprint for a bold new space exploration program; Jeff Foust reports on some of the important space policy issues that ...
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• Indy Transponder 02-NOV-09 1130z

  
  Indy Transponder — Authority: 141
  Red Arrows pilot in £5m crash after he fails to put his jets wheels down - Mirror.co.uk A high-flying Red Arrows pilot wrote off a £5million jet following a cockpit cock-up over the landing wheels. ... Air-treat man hits eject by mistake - The Sun The unnamed guest had been given special permission to ...
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• Stabby the Narwhal (link roundup)

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 692
  Dr. Seuss parody by Jim Benton , who has original art on sale here . Via . And a few more links: 1. Princess Mononoke sculpture . 2. Find balloons spread across the country to win a DARPA contest . Via these sites . 3. Doping and judging scandals at the Chinese National Games. *Previously: ...
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