Slashdot: US Army to Try Out New, Anime-based Uniforms. The Army has given a $50 million grant to MIT to help develop suits for the military that can do all kinds of cool things, including making the wearer partially invisible by using "light-deflecting material". They'll use nanotechnology... sounds awesome if it works. MIT rocks. Here's an article from USA Today, and here's an article from CNET.
Wow, the CNET article has a lot more information: "MIT won the $50 million contract to create an Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, or ISN. The ISN will be staffed by around 150 people, including 35 MIT professors, specialists from the Army, DuPont and Raytheon, as well as doctors from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, according to MIT."
The unique lightweight materials that can be composed using nanotechnology will possess revolutionary qualities that MIT says will help it make a molecular "exoskeleton" for soldiers. The ISN plans to research ideas for a soft--and almost invisible--clothing that can solidify into a medical cast when a soldier is injured or a "forearm karate glove" for combat, MIT said.
Researchers also hope to develop a kind of molecular chain mail that can deflect bullets.
Thursday, March 14, 2002
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