Hot Tech Concepts for 2007

Alex Hutchinson highlights "10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007" for Popular Mechanics. Some that struck me as particularly interesting: PRAM (Phase-Change Random Access Memory): Flash memory, with no moving parts to break or wear down, is the data storage technology of choice for devices such as iPods and digital cameras. But phase-change RAM is set to overtake ...

Army Land Warrior System Almost Ready

The Army is about to deploy the Land Warrior System. It sounds quite amazing. For more than a decade the Army has been trying to put together a wearable package of computers, radios, lasers and other high-tech gear to help infantrymen better pierce the fog of war. The technology has always been a little too buggy, the equipment too heavy ...

U.S. Emergency Care Sytem at Breaking Point

A new study finds major problems with emergency room services in the United States. Half a million times a year — about once every minute — an ambulance carrying a sick patient is turned away from a full emergency room and sent to another one farther away. It's a sobering symptom of how the nation's emergency-care system is overcrowded and overwhelmed, ...

Zarqawi Raid Made Possible by New Defense Technology

David Axe explains how recent innovations in defense technology made the rapid strike that killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi possible. Ten years ago, taking out Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi with F-16s would have been an impossible task. Air strikes were planned days or even weeks in advance. Pilots weren't trained to change missions mid-stream. Sensors and weapons weren't accurate and flexible enough to ...

Caption Contest Winners

The Brokeback Mohammed Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (AP Photo) Winners First: Laurence Simon - "Mr. President? This is the Mossad. So, how do you like our cell phone?" Second: Exek - Ah hum, ah hum, You tell those infidels that my cell-phone came with UN inspector deterrent. Third: Gaijin Biker - "Hold on, ...