by Katie Drummond | Sep 24, 2012 | Monitor
World’s Most Wired War Healer Joachim Kohn Kohn, responding to e-mails in his office on the Rutgers campus. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired Dr. Joachim Kohn has never seen combat. He has never retaliated enemy fire, deployed with a platoon to some foreign, war-ravaged nation,...
by Katie Drummond | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor
Soldiers and veterans looking to alleviate the devastating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder might soon have a new way to help themselves. Strangely, it involves using their gray matter to control a videogame. The process is known as neurofeedback, or NF, and...
by Katie Drummond | Jun 29, 2012 | Monitor
Last year, the Pentagon asked DIY-drone enthusiasts to come up with the spy drone of the future. Twelve months later, it looks like they might need a little more time. In an announcement posted online yesterday with little fanfare, Darpa announced that its UAVForge...
by Katie Drummond | Jun 26, 2012 | Monitor
Last year, Darpa launched a program, Phoenix, to harvest satellite parts. Now, the agency’s convening with researchers and already looking for a prime sat candidate to pick apart. Illustration: Darpa The Pentagon’s intergalactic black-magic plot is getting...