http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/ Engadget Comments for General Dynamics UK touts near real-time 3D maps for soldiers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/
What?!?!? What do you think I do here in my mom's basement? Sit around, surfing engadget and playing video games by day and surfing pr0n by night?

Well, OK. But two minutes at the most on the pr0n (three if I'm lucky). The rest of the time I spend concoting my devious plots for world domination.

"I'm a driver. I'm a winner. Things are gonna change soon, I can feel it."]]>Mar 31st 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/]]>Mar 31st 2008 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/AIMBOT activate DOOM /killall]]>Mar 31st 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/
This could explain why a lot of recent military advances in technology have some kind of UK base.]]>Mar 31st 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/
Additionally, if there are inventive aspects to the system, they can also get a US patent on it, and the patent will not go public (i.e., will be confidential) until it is determined to no longer be a matter of "national security." As a matter of fact, ALL US patent applications are reviewed for national security interests before they are published or "examined", and if they disclose matters of national security, they are made confidential and any rights to be found after examination are held in abeyance until the disclosed subject matter is no longer of "national security".]]>Mar 31st 2008 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/
Second, you'd need to have a way to mark those IEDs, such as personel reporting the coordinates via GPS. Again, IEDs are cheap & easy to implement and even if someone were crazy enough to risk sniper fire or ambush merely to document them, they would probably be detonated before the info was uploaded.

The best way to defeat an IED is blow it up, not defuse it, but be my guest.

Your dad is telling you stories kid.]]>Mar 31st 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/it's good advice believe me]]>Mar 31st 2008 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/
@sammy, who said squat about IED's, it could work off the same (though refined) tech as a tresure hunter (metal detector). but i do agree i think it unlikely that if it existed it would have been shared.

@G5 sorry man i think you've been hoodwined. cool story though, wouldn't suprise me at all if the brits had done it and didn't share it. right up their humour alley!]]>Mar 31st 2008 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/What is it in the west that everyone is just so goddamm obssessed with weapons?
In the 80s Americans studied the laser as a weapon while Japanese used it as a revolutionary new storage system, the CD.
Now we see them developing robot suits to help the elderly and workers everywhere, the Americans? Guess what, super soldiers. ¬¬

Am I the only one who sees the potential of this technology everywhere in our daily lives? Just imagine surgeries done with X-ray like glasses and the images superimposed to the doctor...]]>Mar 31st 2008 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/there more to this world than killing each other, and this 3D map thing is just going to far.]]>Mar 31st 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/Mar 31st 2008 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/general-dynamics-uk-touts-near-real-time-3d-maps-for-soldiers/:-)
Alex ]]>Sep 9th 2008 2:59AM