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DARPA's floating CAAT tankboat-thing takes to the water

Evan Ackerman
Friday, August 10, 2012 - 12:44pm
 
America has a mighty, might navy, with giant, powerful ships that are (or soon will be) outfitted with laser canons and hypersonic railguns, but these fearsome war machines have one major weakness: land. DARPA's new CAAT demonstrator can project some of this power onto the shore, using big air-filled flappy bits to allow vessels to travel on water or land.

DARPA moving forward with zombie satellite program

Evan Ackerman
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 8:07am
 
Back in October, we posted about a program DARPA has been working on to rip apart dead satellites and harvest their organs to make new(er) satellites. It seemed more than a little crazy, but the program is now moving forward, with DARPA holding industry conferences and putting down millions of dollars on the idea.

And now DARPA's making robots to sew its clothing

Travis Andrews
Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 2:27pm
 
Continuing with its trend of creating completely mind-blowing things, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has spent $1.25 million full automate the sewing process of the $4 billion worth of clothing they produce annually. It's almost as wild as a bed that makes itself.

DARPA plans to place diagnostic nanochip in soldiers

Travis Andrews
Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 10:45am
 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which might as well be known as the Science Fiction as Reality Society, has announced plans to create and implant nanochips in soldiers that will monitor their health. As you might have guessed, this plan has raised a little bit of controversy with the fear that this could turn the Earth into Total Recall.

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