GADGETS
Gas Guardian
Welding is an inherently risky activity — among other safety issues, a high-pressure oxygen or acetylene tank can become a missile if a valve is accidentally damaged. In the early 2000s Dell Barritt, director of the Vandenberg AFB Training Device Design and Engineering Center (TDDEC), was aware of that problem, as well as other safety issues surrounding the use of welding carts.CLICK FOR MORE.
Man-Packable Segmented Satellite Dish Antenna
It’s tempting to imagine them appearing suddenly at dusk or filtering in through a side door—Air Force special operations personnel, coming to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New York, in 2008 with a request: build us a complete satellite terminal that will fit in a case the size of a carry-on bag. CLICK FOR MORE.
CleveMed - Wireless Electroencephalogram- BioRadio
Home-based medical tests weren’t on American consumers’ radar in the 1990s, when inventor Robert Schmidt could be found walking around trade shows with electrodes on his head. CLICK FOR MORE.
Vision 1000: A Black Box Recorder For Small Aircraft
The Vision 1000 has a software-driven camera inside the 9-ounce device which collects, interprets, and records critical flight information itself. CLICK FOR MORE.
AlphaMicron: A Liquid Crystal Technology That Can Change Light Levels Instantaneously
Concern about reliable visibility of helmet-mounted displays led to a revolutionary light-attenuating liquid crystal technology. CLICK FOR MORE.
GATR: Portable Satellite Antenna
GATR’s intended application—the original purpose for that prototype at the Red Cross shelter
—was to provide a literal communications lifeline to Air Force Special Operations forces. CLICK FOR MORE.
The Adjustable Liquid Atomizing Nozzle
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division personnel have successfully developed and tested a nozzle that uses air to push water through a restricted convergent region followed by an expanded divergent region of the nozzle. CLICK FOR MORE.