Gears and Gadgets
The British Army tested a new tank last week that's straight out of a James Bond film (specifically, Die Another Day): it goes invisible.The tank uses the same technology that Bond's Aston Martin V12 Vanquish utilizes. It has cameras set up on it, and takes the images they capture of its surroundings and projects them onto the tank, effectively camouflaging it. People who were at the tests said that they were amazed at how good it was. The British military is also working on a jacket that will do the same thing. The tank should be operational by 2012, according to their plan.
Something else that was developed recently, but this time by a guy in Florida, is a bracelet that shoots pepper spray, inspired by Spider-man.
You wear the bracelet around your wrist, obviously, and there is a button that rests in your palm for easy access, which means that if you get attacked, you can easily trigger the spray to shoot in the direction of your attacker. The man who invented it said he thought it up after one of friends was attacked. The bracelet, along with replacement cartridges of pepper spray, will be available latter this year for around $30.
Labels: Current Events, Technology, Things of Interest
posted by Jeremy @ 2:25 PM
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