Here’s a cool proximity warning device (US Patent #6853307) for industrial heavy equipments made with CUBLOC CB220 and GHLCD graphic display from Comfile. If you need to a such device for satisfying OSHA requirements, this might be it.

The company’s primary products are high voltage proximity warning devices and line contact warning devices. Proximity warning devices have been used successfully for decades to prevent heavy equipment from coming into contact with high voltage lines. ASE has developed advanced patented technology to provide the most advanced proximity warning devices in the industry.

“When a vehicle strikes a high voltage line, death most often occurs when personnel come into contact with the energized vehicle while in contact with the ground below the vehicle. ASE has also developed a patented lne contact device to warn operators and other personnel that the heavy equipment has come into contact with a high voltage line based on the measurement of the electric field between the equipment and ground. NIOSH has also successfully tested the effectiveness of a line contact device based on the ASE patented product.”

via alliedsafetyeng

scary looking robots dude…

The United States has robots prepared to fight in the battlefield and is planning to create more complex machines in the future that think for themselves, according to a report on newscientist.com.

Among the robots soon to hit the battlefield are Sword, a machine-gun equipped robot and iRobot’s  shotgun-totting robot.

via discoverychannel

Kinda cool automated defence system on a tank

Developed by various defense companies, the Trophy system is basically an active forcefield around a tank or an armored vehicle to defend against RPG rounds. It’s not an actual forcefield like the USS Enterprise, it’s a system that detects when a round is incoming and shoots out a projectile to eliminate the threat. Best of all, there’s only a 1% chance of injuring surrounding personnel when the round is exploded.

via gizmodo

DIY Wolverine claws for your halloween…

Many of you may also know that Nate spent ENTIRELY too much time working on the Extendable / Retractable claws for his outfit, as well as the outfit itself. The outfit was visualized, conceived, and conceptualized entirely by Nate, as were the claws. However, Nate did pick up quite a bit of help along the way as friends came forward to participate in the creation of what many said was “The most accurate costume I have ever seen…

via digg

Okay, here’s some real marine helicopter…hehe…cool…

Video of the sentry robot from earlier

Here’s a sentry robot can detect enemies via its infrared sensor, tell the difference between ally and enemy, and can shoot on target w/ 100% accuracy within 2km (1km at night) … this is what use to be in video games… hmmm… looks like samsung made this from the picture…

The South Korean government is expected to buy 1,000 of these robots at the cost of $200,000 apiece and will deploy them along its northern border, coastal regions and military airfileds. However, it’s unclear what would happen if Kim Jong Il were to send in a legion of pilfered remote-controlled domestic robots as a countermeasure — that is, if these robotic sentries would be willing to fire on their own kind.

via joins

Bionic arms coming to life, the first time I saw these in the movies,
this is really getting better and better.

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This is the computer every hacker should have…

Looks really cool…

“He said over 2000 access points were scanned and 3.5 GB of traffic was captured during the entire convention.”

[via] tgdaily