by Charles Cameron | Aug 22, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the serious-minded can safely ignore this post, which is of mainly aesthetic interest, surely a matter of no importance in its own right ] . Two graphics caught my eye today, one after another in my RSS feed. . The upper image comes from...
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | Jul 18, 2012 | Monitor
Computerized model of the ParaFoil, a propeller-driven drone that could transport up to 3,000 pounds of goods to disaster-stricken areas. The U.S. military wants to help out during a humanitarian crisis. And it wants paraglider drones and robotic cranes to do it....
by Robert Beckhusen | Jun 25, 2012 | Monitor
The A160 Hummingbird chopper-drone during a test flight. Photo: Boeing This month, the Army planned to deploy to Afghanistan an unusual new drone: an unmanned eye-in-the-sky helicopter programmed to use high-tech cameras to monitor vast amounts of territory. But now...
