http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Gadgets Sun, 19 May 2013 01:06:27 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Gadgets Thu, 16 May 2013 10:38:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6a7_1368714862 cajunmojo A rifle equipped with technology that allows even a novice marksman to achieve a perfect shot nearly every time has ruffled some feathers. But as the system is now on sale the manufacturer said demand has been so high there's a wait list for interested customers. The TrackingPoint rifle with its "Xact System" is classified as a "precision guided firearm," and claims to be "the most accurate shooting system in the world." "It delivers five times the first-shot success rate of traditional systems, at targets up to 1,200 yards, regardless of shooter skill level," TrackingPoint's website states . The system includes a custom rifle, ammunition, a tracking scope with "heads up display" and a guided trigger. The system adjusts for various factors including range, temperature, barometric pressure, wind and more. Here's all the shooter has to do: Paints the target with the tag to lock on Watches as the tag persists, regardless of relative movement Aligns the reticle with the tag to produce the firing solution Squeezes and holds the trigger to arm the system After being featured at the Shot Show earlier this year, TrackingPoint's system is now for sale and demand is "overwhelming," the company's President Jason Schauble told NPR . He also noted that Remington Arms is interested in the technology for its rifles. But not everyone is happy about the system that allows the potentially inexperienced to achieve an easy on-target shot. NPR provides more on this perspective: One hunter who doesn't want one is Chris Wilbratte. He says the TrackingPoint system undermines what he calls hunting's "fair chase." "It's the traditional shooting fish in a barrel or the sitting duck. I mean, there's no skill in it, right? It's just you point, you let the weapons system do its thing and you pull the trigger and now you've killed a deer. There's no skill," Wilbratte says. Chris Frandsen, a West Point graduate who fought in Vietnam, doesn't believe the TrackingPoint technology should be allowed in the civilian world. The gun makes it too easy for a criminal or a terrorist to shoot people from a distance without being detected, he says. "Where we have mental health issues, where we have children that are disassociated from society early on, when we have terrorists who have political cards to play, we have to restrict weapons that make them more efficient in terrorizing the population," Frandsen says. For these concerns, Schauble told NPR the company sells the firearm directly, not through gun dealers, so it can make sure customers are vetted. He also said there is password protection on the gun's scope, which without being inputted would take the precision shooting capability out of the picture. It would still fire without a password but wouldn't have "the tag/track/exact" capabilities. Ars Technica reported in January that the cost for the TrackingPoint system starts around $17,000. The system also comes with an app that can stream real-time video from the heads up display. "This kind of technology, in addition to making shooting more fun for , also allows shooting to be something that they share with others," http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6a7_1368714862 cajunmojo The RIFLE WITH THE TECH THAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO MISS A SHOT TrackingPoint, Xact System Tue, 14 May 2013 07:28:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6b8_1368530484 Detroit Iron This Apple-1 is believed to be one of only a half dozen still functioning. By CNET Plugged In - Fri, May 10, 2013 2:13 PM EDT By Eric Mack A German "Auction of Firsts" includes relics and creations from tech luminaries from Pascal to Woz and Jobs. Attention early adopters: That first-edition Google Glass hardware is likely to be gathering dust a few years from now as the technology gets seriously revved (or falls victim to paranoid lawmakers and pub owners ), but don't toss it out! If an auction later this month of computing and other technological blasts from the past is any indication, it could pay off to hold on to those obsolete gadgets that were once on the cutting edge, even just briefly. The highlight of the sale, planned for May 25 by German auction house Breker , is an original, working Apple-1 , one of only 200 that were produced and 50 that are believed to still exist. Last year, Sotheby's auctioned off just an original Apple-1 motherboard for $374,500. The lot up later this month includes all the system components, plus the original manual and a letter to the original owner signed by Steve Jobs. Breker sold another Apple-1 for a record $640,000 at a previous auction, and estimates that this one -- the auction house claims it is one of only six functioning systems -- could fetch up to $400,000. While the Apple-1 and its younger sibling, the Apple Lisa-1, are the auction lots with the greatest name recognition, the three centuries of technological history represented in this "Auction of Firsts" stretch from a replica of Blaise Pascal's 17th century mechanical calculator to the machines that brought about revolutions in recording, encryption, and, of course, personal computing. Another Apple first in the May 25 auction is one of the first mouse-controlled systems, the Lisa-1. It had a very short run in the 1980s before giving way to the more reliable Lisa-2 and eventually, the Macintosh. Breker estimates it will fetch up to $40,000 at auction. The MITS Altair 8800 from 1974 pre-dated Apple and is often credited with kicking off the age of the PC. The Altair made headlines in early 1975 and also inspired Jobs and Woz, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and many hilarious portrayals of computers in early 1980s Hollywood flicks. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6b8_1368530484 Detroit Iron Three centuries of geek-milestone devices in one epic auction Apple-1, Lisa-1, MITS Altair 8800 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f9_1367035087 Lake8737 Background conversation translated by Google: Finished! Blasting failed! Blasting failed! Finished! Blasting failed! This burst what dick gadgets! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f9_1367035087 Lake8737 Failed demolition embarasses engineers china,chinese,demolition,builiding,failure Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:23:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=510_1365052478 aja9910 Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-powered rifle ARM CPUs, lasers, and Wi-Fi make firing this weapon an experience like no other. by Lee Hutchinson - Mar 31 2013, 8:00pm CDT My photographer, Steve, squints through a computerized scope squatting atop a big hunting rifle. We're outdoors at a range just north of Austin, Texas, and the wind is blowing like crazy-enough so that we're having to dial in more and more wind adjustment on the rifle's computer. The spotter and I monitor Steve's sight through an iPad linked to the rifle via Wi-Fi, and we can see exactly what he's seeing through the scope. Steve lines up on his target downrange-a gently swinging metal plate with a fluorescent orange circle painted at its center-and depresses a button to illuminate it with the rifle's laser. &quot;Good tag?&quot; he asks, softly. &quot;Good tag,&quot; replies the spotter, watching on the iPad. He leaves the device in my hands and looks through a conventional high-powered spotting scope at the target Steve has selected. The wind stops momentarily. &quot;Send it,&quot; he calls out. Steve pulls the trigger, but nothing immediately happens. On the iPad's screen, his reticle shifts from blue to red and drifts toward the marked target. Even though I'm expecting it, the rifle's report is startling when it fires. A second later, the spotter calls out, &quot;That's a hit!&quot; Steve has just delivered a .338 Lapua Magnum round directly onto a target about the size of a big dinner plate at a range of 1,008 yards-that's ten football fields, or a tick over 0.91 kilometers. It's his very first try. He has never fired a rifle before today. Through the shooting glass Of course, Steve isn't some kind of super mutant marksman-he had a bit of help. We were plinking targets with $17,000+ Linux-powered hunting rifles, made by a small Austin company called TrackingPoint . Earlier this year, Ars reported on TrackingPoint's &quot; Precision Guided Firearm &quot; at CES, where the 59-employee company was giving the press a sneak-peak at their product before its official introduction at the Shot Show convention a week later. The Precision Guided Firearm is a &quot;whole widget&quot; type of thing-it's not just a fancy scope on top of a fancy gun, but rather a tightly integrated system coupling a rifle, an ARM-powered scope running a modified version of Angstr"om Linux (with some custom BitBake recipes and kernel modules to support the rifle's proprietary hardware), and a linked trigger mechanism whose weighting is controlled by the scope. TrackingPoint actually makes three different Precision Guided Firearms, two of which fire .300 Winchester Magnum rounds and one of which fires a larger .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge. The weapons themselves are crafted by Surgeon Rifles , and TrackingPoint adds the scope and trigger mechanism to the rifle and then sells it as a package. Since launch, TrackingPoint's sales have been very brisk: the company has nearly sold out of their entire allotment of PGFs for all of 2013. You might be led to think that the lighter XS3 is the most popular of the three rifles, but TrackingPoint VP Bret Boyd actually says that they've sold more of the .338 LM XS1 than any of the other models. This makes sense: the XS1 has the longest effective range of the three PGFs, up to 1200 yards, and the type of customer able to purchase TrackingPoint's high-dollar products is also the type of customer who likely does a whole lot of hunting, at home and abroad. The XS1's versatility is likely worth more to that kind of buyer than its price difference (about $22,000, compared to the XS3's $17,000). What's it like to shoot? I've fired a small number of bolt-action rifles before, but nothing as big as the .338 LM-chambered XS1, on which we spent most of our range time. The oddest thing about firing TrackingPoint's rifles, the thing wildly different from a standard hunting rifle, is the trigger mechanism. The rifle's &quot;Tag-Track-Xact&quot; technology means that there is a delay between when you pull the trigger and when the rifle fires-sometimes several seconds of delay, depending on how steady your aim is. This disconnect between trigger pull and firing can be weirdly disconcerting. All of the interaction with the rifle's computer is done through the computerized tracking scope, which displays an image of the world in front of the rifle, overlaid with data. It's reminiscent of a fighter jet heads-up display. Through the tracking scope, you locate the thing you want to shoot, whether it's a metal plate like we were hitting on the range, a game animal, a tree, or whatever. You place the center reticle over the target and depress the red tagging button just forward of the trigger, which causes the tracking scope's range finder to briefly illuminate the target. The range finder is a powerful laser, rated at 75W and pulsed for an average power of 1mW, which measures the distance to the target in yards (1 yard is 0.9 meters, for metric readers) and displays that number in the upper left side of the scope's field of view. Once &quot;tagged,&quot; the target gains a red pip. The scope image also reorients itself in a move that can be confusing the first few times it happens. The reorientation is to take into account the &quot;drop&quot; of the shot. As demonstrated by MythBusters , a bullet is affected by gravity as it flies, losing height at the same rate as it would if dropped directly out of your hand. At 1000 yards, the bullet loses about 20 feet (6 meters) of height, and so when you tag a target with the tracking scope, the field of view immediately shifts down , by an amount proportional to the target's distance. This is so that the center of the scope accurately shows you where the round will go, rather than some point far above it. Someone firing a long-range shot with a traditional scope must make the same adjustment manually, but here the ballistic computer takes care of it. Once the target is tagged, the laser ceases illuminating and the embedded system's image recognition routines take over. If the target is a game animal, the scope will track the animal's movement in the field of view, and the red pip will remain stuck to the point on the target where it was originally tagged. This level of precision obviously helps out at the range, but it also enables a hunter to more ethically harvest animals by precisely targeting specific areas-the tagging mechanism greatly simplifies the process of killing the game animal with a single shot, rather than wounding it and inflicting unnecessary suffering. After the target has been tagged, the scope's reticle changes to a large blue &quot;X,&quot; and the weapon can be fired. To actually send a round downrange to the target, you depress the weapon's trigger. This doesn't cause the weapon to immediately fire, though-the reticle turns red, and while keeping the trigger held down, you must align the reticle with the tagged pip. Once the pip and the reticle coincide, the weapon fires. Read more: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/bullseye-from-1000-yards-shooting-the-17000-linux-powered-rifle/ 1000 yards is a long, long way away. 1st video: A shot with the XS1 at 1,008 yards (922 meters). The shot-drop reorientation at this range is clearly visible. It also takes several seconds after the trigger is pulled (reticle turns red) for the rifle's computer to judge the alignment as favorable enough to fire. The spotter can be heard noting that the round impacts &quot;center mass,&quot; or directly in the middle of the target. (The time &amp;amp; date displayed at the bottom of the scope are incorrect.) 2nd video: Scoring a hit at 750 yards (685 meters) with the .300 WinMag XS2 rifle. The shift in view at the beginning of the video is the scope's computer compensating for the anticipated bullet drop by realigning the sight picture so that the tagged spot on the target occupies the middle of the view. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=510_1365052478 aja9910 Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-powered rifle 1000 yards linux powered rifle lasers arm cpus .338 Lapua Magnum XS1.300 Winchester XS2 PGF .300 WinMag XS2 rifle weapons science technology Austin Texas Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:15:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08f_1363698096 BloodyPeasant From: http://afrotechmods.com/tutorials/2011/11/28/voltage-regulator-tutorial-and-usb-charger-circuit/ Original Description: Voltage regulator tutorial and USB gadget charger circuit Posted on November 28, 2011 This video covers the basics of linear voltage regulators - what they do, how to wire them up, and where to find them. Then I give a basic example of how to build a 5V supply that can be used to power USB powered gadgets. This video builds upon material covered in the transformer and diode tutorials. If you watch them sequentially, you'll learn how to safely get from mains voltages to a regulated DC voltage supply for your projects. Wikipedia Entry on Voltage Regulators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_regulator A voltage regulator is designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage level. A voltage regulator may be a simple "feed-forward" design or may include negative feedback control loops. It may use an electromechanical mechanism, or electronic components. Depending on the design, it may be used to regulate one or more AC or DC voltages. Electronic voltage regulators are found in devices such as computer power supplies where they stabilize the DC voltages used by the processor and other elements. In automobile alternators and central power station generator plants, voltage regulators control the output of the plant. In an electric power distribution system, voltage regulators may be installed at a substation or along distribution lines so that all customers receive steady voltage independent of how much power is drawn from the line. Subscribe for more electronics videos at: http://electronics.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08f_1363698096 BloodyPeasant (Electronics) Voltage regulator tutorial and USB gadget charger circuit electronics, voltage regulator, tutorial, usb, usb charger Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:18:27 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=426_1362251748 Awesome Stuff 150 kilowatt lasers will be installed in US Fighter planes as early as 2014 Friday, January 25, 2013 1:51 % of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents. (Before It's News) From NextBigFuture.com The goal of the HELLADS (High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System) program is to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system that is ten times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power, enabling integration onto tactical aircraft to defend against and defeat ground threats. With a weight goal of less than five kilograms per kilowatt, and volume of three cubic meters for the laser system, HELLADS seeks to enable high-energy lasers to be integrated onto tactical aircraft, significantly increasing engagement ranges compared to ground-based systems. The program has completed laboratory testing of a fundamental building block for HELLADS, a single laser module that successfully demonstrated the ability to achieve high power and beam quality from a significantly lighter and smaller laser. The program is now in the final development phase where a second laser module will be built and combined with the first module to generate 150 kW of power. The United States Navy and Air Force will be installing "liquid-cooled, solid-state lasers" in combat airplanes. The lasers will shoot down missiles and rockets targeted at the planes. Firing tests will happen as soon as next year. Read more >> See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at NextBigFuture.com 2013-01-25 01:46:08 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/150-kilowatt-lasers-will-be-installed.html . High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) The goal of the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) program is to develop a high-energy laser weapon system (~150 kilowatt) with an order-of-magnitude reduction in weight compared to existing laser systems. Enemy surface-to-air threats to manned and unmanned aircraft have become increasingly sophisticated, creating a need for rapid and effective response to this growing category of threats. High power lasers can provide a solution to this challenge, as they harness the speed and power of light to counter multiple threats. Laser weapon systems provide additional capability for offensive missions as well-adding precise targeting with low probability of collateral damage. For consideration as a weapon system on today's air assets though, these laser weapon systems must be lighter and more compact than the state-of-the-art has produced. The goal of the HELLADS program is to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system that is ten times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power, enabling integration onto tactical aircraft to defend against and defeat ground threats. With a weight goal of less than five kilograms per kilowatt, and volume of three cubic meters for the laser system, HELLADS seeks to enable high-energy lasers to be integrated onto tactical aircraft, significantly increasing engagement ranges compared to ground-based systems. The program has completed laboratory testing of a fundamental building block for HELLADS, a single laser module that successfully demonstrated the ability to achieve high power and beam quality from a significantly lighter and smaller laser. The program is now in the final development phase where a second laser module will be built and combined with the first module to generate 150 kW of power. Following the final development phase, the plan is for the laser to be transported to White Sands Missile Range for ground testing against rockets, mortars, surface-to-air missiles and to conduct simulated air-to-ground offensive missions. http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/STO/Programs/High_Energy_Liquid_Laser_Area_Defense_System_%28HELLADS%29.aspx David Zax January 24, 2013 "Star Wars" Writ Small Laser defense systems will be coming to fighter jets. By now you probably heard the massive "Star Wars" news today: word that J.J. Abrams will be helming Episode VII of the beloved sci-fi series hit the Internet with the force of a Category Five hurricane (see "What the 'Star Wars' Sale Means for Tech Education"). But all the fanfare may drown out an even more remarkable piece of "Star Wars"-related news: the fact that some technology worthy of the series (and similar to Reagan's anti-missile vision that drew its nickname from it) will soon become a reality . Jesus Diaz over at Gizmodo has the story: The United States Navy and Air Force will be installing "liquid-cooled, solid-state lasers" in combat airplanes. Why? Why not! But if you insist on utility: much like the Reagan-era "Star Wars" program, these lasers will offer a line of defense, shooting down missiles and rockets targeted at the planes. Firing tests will happen as soon as next year. DARPA is calling this program the High Energy Laser Area Defense System, or HELLADS for short. DARPA says that these lasers will be ten times smaller and lighter than current lasers that pack the same punch (150 kilowatts), "enabling integration onto tactical aircraft." Ultimately the goal is to have these systems weigh less than five kilograms per kilowatt. Of course, it's no secret that DARPA's had its eye on compact lasers for some time. The agency reported on a "key milestone" in that quest back in 2011, with the first successful testing of a single laser module in a lab. But in a year and a half, we've come much closer to implementation. HELLADS is only one of at least two laser projects the agency's funding and talking about. DARPA has also been giving support to Lockheed Martin for something called the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control program. As AviationWeek explains , that program is about allowing a high-speed fighter to "shoot aft and sidewards through the turbulent flowfield behind the laser turret." DARPA has a rather technical way of saying that with current laser systems, you can only shoot ahead: "High-energy laser systems are currently limited to a forward field of regard due to turbulent density fluctuations in the aft sector of the turret that severely degrade the laser beam fluence on target." I can only imagine, having never been in a fighter jet under fire, but if you have ground-to-air missles approaching you from the rear, I'd wager you'd feel strongly about not having your fluence degraded. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510361/star-wars-writ-small/ . COMPACT HIGH-POWER LASER PROGRAM COMPLETES KEY MILESTONE June 30, 2011 COMPACT HIGH-POWER LASER PROGRAM COMPLETES KEY MILESTONE Enemy surface-to-air threats to manned and unmanned aircraft have become increasingly sophisticated, creating a need for rapid and effective response to this growing category of threats. A potential solution for countering these threats is high-powered lasers, which can harness the speed and power of light to counter multiple threats. But these lasers need to be lighter and require less space than current state-of-the-art for use on many of today's air assets. The goal of DARPA's High-Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) is to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system that is ten times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power, enabling integration onto tactical aircraft to defend against and defeat ground threats. DARPA recently completed laboratory testing of a fundamental building block for HELLADS, a single laser module that successfully demonstrated the ability to achieve high power and beam quality from a significantly lighter and smaller laser. "Successful testing of the single laser module is a major accomplishment," said Richard Bagnell, DARPA's HELLADS program manager. "Advances in diodes, cooling, lightweight electronics, pumps, optics, and metal structures have made shrinking the size and weight possible without losing laser effectiveness." The program now enters the final development phase where a second laser module will be built and combined with the first module to generate 150 kW of power. The goal is to have the 150 kW laser completed by the end of 2012. Following the final development phase, plans call for the laser to be transported to White Sands Missile Range in the early-2013 timeframe for ground testing against rockets, mortars, surface-to-air missiles and to conduct simulated air-to-ground offensive missions. DARPA is also in discussion with the Air Force about transitioning the technology to conduct an airborne demonstration following the ground testing phase. # # # Media with inquiries, contact DARPA Public Affairs, DARPAPublicAffairsOffice@darpa.mil http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2011/2011/06/30_COMPACT_HIGH-POWER_LASER_PROGRAM_COMPLETES_KEY_MILESTONE.aspx . Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) The goal of the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) program is to improve the performance of high energy lasers on tactical aircraft against targets in the aft field of regard. This program will optimize flow control strategies for pointing angles in the aft field of regard and will also explore the ability of the flow control system to be synchronized with adaptive optics. The goal of the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) program is to improve the performance of high energy lasers on tactical aircraft against targets in the aft field of regard. This program will optimize flow control strategies for pointing angles in the aft field of regard and will also explore the ability of the flow control system to be synchronized with adaptive optics. This effort will initially focus on wind tunnel testing to prove the feasibility of steady and periodic flow control techniques to reduce or regularize the large scale turbulent structures surrounding an optical turret. These tests will culminate in a hardware-in-the-loop demonstration using flow control with an adaptive optics system in a full-scale wind tunnel test for the turret. Following successful wind tunnel demonstrations, a preliminary design of a flight test turret incorporating flow control will be undertaken. http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/STO/Programs/Aero-Adaptive_Aero-Optic_Beam_Control_%28ABC%29.aspx Navy to Test-Fire DARPA's Hellads Laser Posted by Graham Warwick 10:22 AM on Jan 24, 2013 DARPA plans to buy a second Hellads high-energy laser system from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI), to provide to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the demonstration of a laser weapon system against targets relevant to surface ships. Hellads is a liquid-cooled, solid-state laser that has been under development for DARPA for several years. GA-ASI is building a 150kW Hellads laser to be integrated with an existing US Air Force beam control system for a ground demonstration in 2014. Concepts: DARPA DARPA's notice of intent to award a sole-source contract to GA-ASI says that, because the existing Hellads laser is committed to the Air Force demo and cannot be made available to the Navy, it wants to acquire a second, identical system for the ONR demo, also planned for 2014. After focusing its directed-energy research for years on the free electron laser, ONR has launched a program to mature available solid-state electric laser technology with a goal of getting laser weapons on ships more quickly. Hellads is designed to meet a weight goal of less that 5kg/kW, enabling a high-energy laser weapon to be integrated onto tactical aircraft. DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory are planning a follow-on flight demonstration under the Electric Lasers on Large Aircraft (ELLA) program. The design is based on combining a series of unit cell modules together to produce a single 150kW laser. DARPA says GA-ASI demonstrated the required power output and optical performance with a single module, then showed that two unit cells could be integrated to produce more than 34kW. Fabrication of the 150kW laser was planned to be completed the end of 2012. Plans for 2013 include its integration with the power, thermal management, beam control, and command-and-control subsystems to produce a laser weapon ready for low-power testing. Shoot-down tests against targets such as surface-to-air missiles and rockets will follow in 2014. DARPA, meanwhile, plans to continue funding Lockheed Martin for Phase 3 of the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) program, intended to allow a self-defense laser on a high-speed fighter to shoot aft and sidewards through the turbulent flowfield behind the laser turret. "High-energy laser systems are currently limited to a forward field of regard due to turbulent density fluctuations in the aft sector of the turret that severely degrade the laser beam fluence on target," says DARPA. Lockheed's solution combines active flow control to reduce airflow separation and adaptive optics to reduce the remaining beam distortions. Lockheed has conducted full-scale windtunnel tests at NASA Ames with hardware-in-the-loop adaptive optics and flow control. Under the 30-month Phase 3, the company will build a subscale turret with flow control for flight testing on a government-furnished aircraft. This will gather data for use in design of the adaptive optics system, says DARPA. Tags: ar99 , DARPA http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A7cb0a0b1-7082-41f8-aabb-7ad70a08a420 150 kilowatt lasers will be installed in US Fighter planes as early as 2014 January 25, 2013 The goal of the HELLADS (High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System) program is to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system that is ten times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power, enabling integration onto tactical aircraft to defend against and defeat ground threats. With a weight goal of less than five kilograms per kilowatt, and volume of three cubic meters for the laser system, HELLADS seeks to enable high-energy lasers to be integrated onto tactical aircraft, significantly increasing engagement ranges compared to ground-based systems. The program has completed laboratory testing of a fundamental building block for HELLADS, a single laser module that successfully demonstrated the ability to achieve high power and beam quality from a significantly lighter and smaller laser. The program is now in the final development phase where a second laser module will be built and combined with the first module to generate 150 kW of power. The HELLADS is expected to have a maximum weight of 750kg. General Atomics has the contract to deliver the lasers. Textron Defense Systems and Northrop Grumman also have laser development involvement. We had coverage in 2009 of earlier laser work by Textron and General Atomics The United States Navy and Air Force will be installing "liquid-cooled, solid-state lasers" in combat airplanes. The lasers will shoot down missiles and rockets targeted at the planes. Firing tests will happen as soon as next year. DARPA continues funding for Phase 3 of the Lockheed Martin Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) program, intended to allow a self-defense laser on a high-speed fighter to shoot aft and sidewards through the turbulent flowfield behind the laser turret. Here is the DARPA page for the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) program. Here is the DARPA page for the Architecture for Diode High Energy Laser Systems (ADHELS) ADHELS is dedicated to investigating new wavelength laser beam-combining architectures to produce a new generation of compact high-efficiency, high-energy laser (HEL) systems. Such an architecture complements current programs developing airborne-based, megawatt-class chemical lasers and ground-based, multihundred kilowatt-class solid-state slab lasers by providing a new class of HELs with record-low size, weight and waste power that can be integrated onto tactical air vehicles. The solid-state lasers are candidates for the U.S. Army's High-Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator program to test a truck-mounted (of Humvvee) system in 2013-15 that can counter rocket, artillery and mortar projectiles. DARPA high energy laser project budgets are reviewed here SOURCES - DARPA, Aviation Week, Technology Review If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon . Thanks Posted bybrian wangat 1/25/2013 Labels: airplanes , darpa , future weapons , lasers , military , physics , united states http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/150-kilowatt-lasers-will-be-installed.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jul 19, 2011 GA-ASI Awarded Contract for Hellads Weapon System Demonstrator High-Power Laser Weapon Ultimately to be Incorporated into Tactical Aircraft SAN DIEGO - 19 July 2011 - General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), a leading manufacturer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, today announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded the company a contract for development of the complete Demonstrator Laser Weapon System (DLWS) for the agency's High Energy Liquid Laser Defense System (HELLADS) program. The contract award follows the successful development and test of the company's HELLADS weapon class unit cell under a previous contract. "In 2001, GA-ASI pioneered a new concept for electrically-pumped, high energy lasers, and under DARPA sponsorship this technology has developed into a promising new weapon class capable of being deployed on a wide variety of land, sea, and airborne tactical platforms," http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=426_1362251748 Awesome Stuff 150 kilowatt lasers will be installed in US Fighter planes as early as 2014 150 kilowatt lasers, US Fighter planes, 2014, drones, HELLADS high-energy laser Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:18:03 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=211_1361881959 wtmgify Using a nuclear reactor and a copy of your life energy they've been imaging (STED microscopy and computer memory), sucking your soul off your body using technology similar to a USB memory stick, they had begun using my pelvis to pulse orgasm in power levels of sound in constant via nanometers to 'push me through to the other side of life'. Basically, using gamma brainwaves and orgasm to match to gamma nuclei and the sounds of color, color of things. They pulse the big o constant in power levels of horror while withholding the actual orgasm from my brain. Instead they pulse to a 'big black hole in my womb and vagina/bunghole (they call it a bagina) to the pure horror of what they've been doing to my life and soul since I was one or two, still in my crib (with them all present), and using the vacuum of our HDMI heads. The big black hole I feel is actually them 'spreading' my bones and flesh using my life energy hooked up to the shrink wrap they've encased me in transmit sound and light into the insertion points. There is one huge insertion point under the flesh of my pelvis just above the clitoris. There is a 'birthmark' that I had now for the past ten plus years. You can see the impressions from the pressure waves and the gadgets installed in my flesh and around me. They are constantly using and inserting new 'plumibing' from bunkerville's life energy manufacturing plant. The plumbing they use they pull out of your body by blowing up various quadrants and working in your plasma (there's images of the surgical window showing this -- one on YouTube last video upload). A straw in EMF spectrum #? is the same only much large or smaller in EMF spectrum #?.Once they encase the outer body or organ and blow it up, there's all sorts of room to play in the possibilities of the vacuum of perfect equilibrium of the quantum wavelengths and phononic pressure waves of the body -- and they use your brain to do this. Creating a new species as they use my brain to install and use these new feed tubes and orifices. "Sound transcends time space and energy." Especially wonderful in a vacuum of someone's head. What you see is ohononic pressure waves and formamiding denaturation of my DNA as they pulse my body to form into the life energy manufacturing plant pieces -- think of your body as robotic parts; e.g. as a robotic arm -- and like a computer they only need to image the movement once -- such as eating something red, orange, yellow, blue, green. They are in my 'light' pulsing the big o constant while mutilating my brain and body ... starting with mutilating your soul. I've had 4 voilts of electricity pulsing through my neck .. what they do to the feet is even more horrific. In these images, you'll see a big chunk of my leg missing. Note my weight also. They are blowing up my body protein and pulsing it in waves. I have an image where you can see my stomach and bladder. I took the image simply by placing the camera next to the waistband of my pants and aiming the camera at my chin. There's an image in this slideshow that looks like I'm wearing a fishnet. I'm not. It's my sweater. They are pulsing me to the extent you can see the weave of the fabric larger than it is and most of the threads disintegrated. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=211_1361881959 wtmgify HAARPS creationism project of pulsing pelvis through nuclear reactor holding life energy unbelievable, conspiracy, horror, inception, avatar, scare, EMF, magnet, plasma Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:08:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e08_1268780639 gregory_peckory Page last updated at 13:01 GMT, Friday, 12 March 2010 Kim Jong-ryul, a former North Korean colonel, was Kim Jong-il's personal shopper for two decades. He has been living in Austria since defecting in 1994 after faking his own death, and a book about his experiences has just been published. He spoke to the BBC's Europe Today programme. Kim Jong-ryul says he has no regrets about breaking his silence In 1972, the great dictator decided that henceforth he wanted to drive a Mercedes-Benz Pullman - the biggest one. So I was assigned to the task. I knew German and had technical knowledge. So that was my job for 20 years - providing the cars and all kinds of security gadgets for his bodyguards. My main operational base in all these years was Vienna. We could have gone to Germany or Switzerland but we thought Austrians as a nation were neutral and the people are friendly and helpful. So we chose Vienna. I had a diplomatic passport for many years. Pistols and furniture In the mid 1970s North Korea went bankrupt, so sometimes for my purchases I had to bring in $300,000 or $500,000 in cash. No problem. They never searched me. We found that Austria was easy to handle. We could purchase embargoed goods here. We labelled and packaged them and then shipped them from Vienna. That is how it worked. Austrian businessmen are very good at that kind of thing. North Korea always paid 20-30% extra and Austrian firms were quite interested in that. We used this interest. We bought all sorts of things - such as Geiger counters, fingerprint readers from America and encrypted telephones for the two dictators to talk to each other on. Also, gold-plated pistols, hunting rifles and furniture and fittings for villas. Faked death One reason for my escape was that I knew the real situation in North Korea and could compare it to the freedom of the Western world. It became clear to me that North Korean policy does not work. It is wrong, so I wanted to get away. Hatred towards the two dictators was my motivation. In order to escape, I set up my own death. It took a real "theatre play" to make everyone believe I was dead. On 18 October 1994 I was "killed" by Slovak gangs. I think it worked and I went undetected until today. If you get old you start thinking about death and so I thought, do I want to die like this or leave a legacy? I decided I wanted my last cry of protest to be heard and then die. That is how the book came about. Now I am known as a traitor, if they find me, they will kill me straight away. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e08_1268780639 gregory_peckory The man who bought <span class="highlight">gadgets</span> for Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il, north korea, gadgets, austria, embargoed goods, book, BBC Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:20:11 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=847_1216887611 theblue8 The digital revolution has forced law enforcement and intelligence agencies to monitor threats such as cyber attacks and stolen computer data using technology that makes most Cold War-era equipment look like it was made from spare parts in someone's garage. But lest these once-innovative tools be forgotten, the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Countermeasures Directorate today unveiled a public exhibit, entitled "Listening In: Electronic Eavesdropping in the Cold War Era," honoring spy gear used by (and against) the U.S. from the dawn to the end of the Cold War. From the end of World War II to East Berlin's opening in 1989, foreign agents penetrated a number of U.S. embassies with listening devices, primarily wired microphones and radio transmitters. To retaliate, the U.S. formed teams of specially trained engineers to hunt for bugs using specialized equipment of their own. In May 1960, for example, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. showed the United Nations Security Council a listening device found inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that presented to U.S. Embassy Moscow by the Soviet Union in 1945. Countermeasures Directorate unearthed most of these treasures in its regional centers and satellite offices worldwide; some of the cool gadgets would have ended up on scrap heaps were it not for this permanent exhibit, located in the lobby of a State Department building in Rosslyn, Va. The State Department says it has a lot more devices to add to its trophy case-once they are de-classified. Interested? While the new exhibit was originally created for viewing only by internal State Department employees, the lobby in which these gadgets are located is publicly accessible, which means they can be viewed by Cold War buffs and other curious onlookers during normal business hours. Spying on the Spys-Source Photo Descriptions: ------------------------------------------------- 1.MAGNETIC MICROPHONE During the Cold War, a number of microphones similar to this one were recovered from U.S. embassies in Eastern Europe. The long wooden tube attached to the microphone allowed it to be deeply recessed in walls and to pick up conversations in the room through a tiny pinhole at the end of the tube. 2. SIMPSON MULTIMETER In hunting for microphones, engineers used these multimeters to examine wiring for changes in voltage that might indicate the wires were used to power microphones or carry microphone signals. 3. AUDIO AMPLIFIERS Audio amplifiers like these were used to listen to faint signals carried by wiring and help State Department personnel locate microphones used for spying on its offices. 4. CLANDESTINE TRANSMITTERS: At a time when most Eastern European and African embassy office furniture was made of oak, these transmitters were housed in milled or laminate cases that looked very much like the piece of furniture to which they were attached. A foreign intelligence service would give a duplicitous embassy employee, often a member of the cleaning crew, the wooden block, which he or she would attach against the underside of a desk or coffee table while cleaning the furniture. 5. MASON A3B RECEIVER To look for a transmitter, engineers needed a receiver, preferably one that could be moved from room to room without looking like a radio. The Mason A3 was a portable technical surveillance countermeasures receiver that could detect a number of different signal types and had a video display unit that doubled as a television monitor. 6. WATKINS-JOHNSON RS-111 RECEIVER This receiver was popular in technical surveillance countermeasures work during the 1960s and 1970s, because it combined a practical display with smooth tuning and many useful signal outputs. 7. TEKTRONIX 492 SPECTRUM ANALYZER Spectrum analyzers were added to the repertoire of technical surveillance countermeasures in the mid-1970s, giving engineers a wider view of the radio spectrum and many new tools with which to analyze radio signals. 8. PLA-2 POWER LINE ANTENNA This small black box allowed sensitive radio receivers to hunt for radio signals carried on power lines. 9. IBM SELECTRIC TYPEWRITER Because the Selectric coupled a motor to a mechanical assembly, pressing different keys caused the motor to draw different amounts of current specific to each key. By closely measuring the current used by the typewriter, it was possible to determine what was being typed on the machine. To prevent such measurements, State Department Selectric typewriters were equipped with parts that masked the messages being typed. 10. TRAINING TRANSMITTER This training transmitter was developed in the 1970s to help engineers practice analyzing radio signals. 11. COOKE TELEPHONE ANALYZER The Cooke Telephone Analyzer was designed as an inspection tool for Western Electric multi-line telephones, which were used in American embassies and consulates from the 1960s to the 1980s. The analyzer was designed to check all available pathways to and from a telephone, simplifying the examination process. 12. WESTERN ELECTRIC 1565HK MULTI-LINE TELEPHONE This is an example of the type of telephone the Cooke Analyzer was designed to inspect. 13. ULTRASONIC TEST SET: State Department Countermeasure agents interested in the audio frequency spectrum above human hearing used this ultrasonic test set to convert these sounds into the normal audio hearing range. Many mechanical and electronic devices normally produce ultrasonic sound, and this instrument could pinpoint the locations of those devices even if they could not be heard. 14. SAN-BAR LINE CARD In an office area, multi-line phones were connected to a number of outside lines through a Key Telephone Unit (KTU). When the phones were not in use, these devices electrically disconnected each telephone from the outgoing lines. 15. WECO B-66 TELEPHONE LINE BLOCK Inside a building, telephone lines were routed to terminal blocks such as this one, which was used to support multi-line telephone systems. Countermeasure staff needed to check all wiring associated with the embassy phones, including the terminal blocks. 16. INFRA-RED TELESCOPE This German-made night vision viewer was ultra-sensitive to infrared light and designed to detect laser energy coming through a window. (For laser mics) 17. MICROLAB FXR NON-LINEAR JUNCTION DETECTOR The Non-Linear Junction Detector shown here was a basic item of State Department equipment in the 1970s and 1980s. The detector could find a transmitter hidden in a desk even when the transmitter was turned off. Checking an office with this tool allowed inspections without the need to disassemble furniture. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=847_1216887611 theblue8 State Department shows off Cold War era electronic eavesdropping <span class="highlight">gadgets</span> US, State Department, Spying, Spy, Spies, Gadgets, Devices, Tools, Espionage, Treason, Eavesdropping Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:32:15 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0cc_1266953305 catcher . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0cc_1266953305 catcher A professor who don't like <span class="highlight">gadgets</span> A professor who don't like gadgets Tue, 12 May 2009 11:58:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d66_1242143594 barnesy Raw : Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) unveiled high-tech intelligence equipment seized from suspects charged with spying for Israel. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d66_1242143594 barnesy Lebanon Displays <span class="highlight">Gadgets</span> Used By Alledged Spies For Israel Lebanon displays gadgets used by alledged spies for Israel Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:47:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b7f_1220489244 butt313 SOME COOL INVENTIONS , U MAY LIKE THEM !!!!!!! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b7f_1220489244 butt313 TOP 5 <span class="highlight">GADGETS</span> OF 2008 TOP, GADGETS, 2008, COOL, INVENTION