Geosystems Situational Awareness Mast (aka Zippermast) from Travis on Vimeo.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Technology: Texas Border Virtual Community Watch Program
Boy, if you have some down time, this could fill it. You can sign up to be a ‘virtual deputy’ and watch various webcams of the border area in Texas. If you see anything suspicious, just use the email function of the site and let them know what’s up. Now could something like this be used in a war zone? Could you line an entire road with webcams, and ask the viewing public to watch it? Better yet, what if you mixed Mechanical Turk (Amazon.com crowd sourcing service) and virtual community or war zone watches? I guess it is too soon to tell, and it will be interesting to hear the feedback about this project, and it’s potential. –Head Jundi
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About BlueServo
The Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition (TBSC) has joined BlueServoSM in a public-private partnership to deploy the Virtual Community Watch, an innovative real-time surveillance program designed to empower the public to proactively participate in fighting border crime.
The TBSC BlueServoSM Virtual Community WatchSM is a network of cameras and sensors along the Texas-Mexico border that feeds live streaming video to www.BlueServo.net. Users will log in to the BlueServoSM website and directly monitor suspicious criminal activity along the border via this virtual fenceSM.
Citizens can sign up as Virtual Texas DeputiesSM to participate in border surveillance through this social network. Virtual Texas DeputiesSM from around the country will monitor the streaming video from these cameras 24/7 and report any suspicious activities directly to the Border Sheriffs via email. All emails regarding suspicious activity will be submitted anonymously.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Technology: New Honeycomb Tire is ‘Bulletproof’
I really like the concept of this tire. Getting a flat on the road, is definitely a bummer deal in a war zone. So ideas like this, are what I like to see. Hopefully the private industry will be able to hook into stuff like this. –Head Jundi
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November 17, 2008 6:10 AM PST
New honeycomb tire is ‘bulletproof’
Posted by Mark Rutherford
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Wausau, Wis., company have come up with a 37-inch, bullet and bomb-proof Humvee tire based on a polymeric web so cool looking there’s no need for hub caps.
Resilient Technologies and Wisconsin-Madison’s Polymer Engineering Center are creating a “non-pneumatic tire” (no air required) that will support the weight of add-on armor, survive an IED attack, and still make a 50 mph getaway. It’s basically a round honeycomb wrapped with a thick, black tread.
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