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...through the optics system, consult the last available coordinates for all known battlefield combatants, try to identify the vehicle's type, check if it has a special panel that appears as a cold spot through a thermal sight, add it all together and decide whether the image on the screen is friend or foe. If it's the latter, the crew, under pressure to shoot before being shot at, is likely to pull the trigger--then hope like hell it has not accidentally blasted a group of comrades...
...Blue Force Tracking, a computer system that collects coordinates from transponders on allied vehicles and creates a moving battle map. The good guys are marked in blue; enemy coordinates, called in from the battlefield, are plotted in red. But not all vehicles in each unit have a computer screen to display the information, and the data aren't updated in real time. The Holy Grail of identification systems is an encoded radio signal sent from a vehicle to a target which, if friendly, will automatically reply in milliseconds. Despite years of research and negotiations, it will be at least...
...NIGHT-VISION GOGGLES A small amount of ambient light, most likely from the moon, is converted to electrons, which are amplified and projected onto a phosphor screen...
...about an apparently budding long-term romance that turned out to be just a fling. "I was pretty pissed off when I wrote it," says Williams, and her anger comes through in such screeching lines as "You found a hole and in you came" and "Scorpions crawl across my screen." Then the music rises and segues into a chorus--"Did you only love me for those three days?"--that wouldn't be out of place on a Lionel Richie album (or rather, a good Lionel Richie album). "It's like this pop refrain," Williams says. "When I finished, I thought...
DIED. ADAM OSBORNE, 64, computer executive who in 1981 introduced the first portable PC; after a series of strokes; in Kodiakanal, India. With its 5-in. screen, his 24-lb. Osborne 1 elicited a frenzy of orders before manufacturing glitches derailed the machine. Osborne Computer declared bankruptcy...