Word: wireless
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...going to build them. This week, the Army begins a "drive-off" to see what contractor is going to provide up to 1,000 bomb-clearing robots by year's end, with a possible follow-up order for 2,000 more. The requirement is for a remote-controlled, wireless robot that weighs 50 pounds or less "to be used for Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detection and identification," according to the Pentagon's solicitation...
Chris Goggin, who heads his own research and engineering company in Wilmington, N.C., is working on a different method of transmission; a radiowave-powered switch that can wirelessly control small devices such as locators or sensors. Goggin, a semi-finalist for the History Channel's annual Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge this year, says state officials could get data from the sensors directly at the push of a button and a radio signal would act as a transmitter, putting the bridge's sensor information into an e-mail sent straight to their inbox. "You wouldn't need helicopters or lights...
...that simple. Paul Maltseff, an intellectual property legal counsel for Intermec Inc., a technology company that did an independent review of Goggin's invention, says the device is "a phenomenon of interest," but that more research and development needs to be done on both sensors and the wireless switch before the technology is effective...
Living here, in this small abyss, I have begun to think differently about the military and military life. In this cornucopia of students from different schools and backgrounds, we share a common patio, essentially the only place we can get wireless internet access, and a common experience. While work has kept me busy and isolated from news of the outside world, the fact of the war in Iraq remains. And each time I walk, drive or bike past the village for military families, with nearly every house sporting a U.S. flag, the news takes on a different meaning...
...don’t naively suppose this has not already happened, but living on this base 3,000 miles from home, I want to see it alive again. I want to see the asbestos-filled buildings torn down and replaced by more houses and building complexes. I want wireless Internet access from my room. Above all, I want the constant color and light that these soldiers clearly bring to their families...