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DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program recently completed its first successful life-fire test demonstration, where it actually worked! Check out the video below to see it in action. How does it work? Beats me, and DARPA being who they are, they’re not exactly providing a lot of details. From what I can gather from the project’s website, the bullet (can we even call it that?) has movable aerodynamic surface and is receiving guidance instruction from the firing weapon. Pretty impressive technology.

Check out the video below of a bionic arm and what a bit difference it can make in one person’s quality of life. Even with relatively simple motions (open, close, rotate), it facilitates things like tying shoes, walking the dog, etc. Cool technology.

Lots of cool tech ideas first make their appearance in sci-fi movies, but really…sharks with freakin laser beams attached to their heads? Ridiculous idea, but yeah, it’s still cool. Even if it was a bit of a publicity stunt for Wicked Lasers.

Read all about it over at Wired.

Energy storage and consumption is the bane of any new technology, especially portable ones. Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University have accomplished something that I find quite incredible…tapping into a living organism’s biological energy system, and converting that to electricity which can then be used by human technology that has been added to the organism. A true step closer to a living cyborg. Awesome. Ok, so it’s really more suitable to invertebrates at this point, but it still has incredible potential. It also brings back memories of that scene in the Fifth Element, where a cockroach is equipped with a microphone, transmitter, and remote control, to enable Zorg’s men to eavesdrop on the President (the image here). Read more about it over at Gizmag.

Category: Cyborg

Guided .50-caliber bullets

Bionic arm improving quality of life

Sharks with laser beams

Biological fuel cell