Military

But, nothing can beat its safari green hue and its series of rugged, military looking apps full of knobs and dials. There is even a mock-up reel-to-reel screen.

Not for airplanes that you or I will get a chance to fly on, but rather for a military plane. This will be the first airplane ever that's powered solely using fuel cells, with no internal combustion engine of any kind involved

Instead of going gigantic, scientists have been working to bring automatons down to size, and the researchers at Harvard think they have something perfect for the military.Professor Robert Wood has developed a life-sized robotic fly for use in military surveillance.

The tail also has a guidance camera to aid steering. Galileo is marketing its stretchy tread technology to the military and to companies that use a lot of heavy machinery, but the company also has ideas for using the tech to make wheelchairs more maneuverable.

Originally developed for the military and now available for use by the rest of us, this is one sophisticated mask. Its Digital Optic system displays your current depth, elapsed dive time, the amount of pressure in that air cylinder on your back, and time remaining.

The military is looking to solve that problem for soldiers  well, not that problem exactly. They're looking to be able to silently send messages to soldiers via tactile messaging

Unfortunately for police and members of the military, it's not all that easy to administer drugs from afar to unwilling subjects. That could change in the future, however, due to some fancy-shmancy new products

Well, some crazy military engineers decided to take the Phalanx M61 (pictured above) that protects naval vessels from anti-ship missiles and toss it on the back of a truck to counter mortars before they can land.That big white lump on the top of the M61 is a radar.

While the claim that its sensor uses "technology developed for the military" could be just hype, the Sensor Fresh has a microprocessor that takes more than 2,000 readings for bacteria in less than a minute to calculate whether that chunk of sirloin that's been sitting in your fridge all week is ready for the grill or the trash. It costs a somewhat steep $90, and keep in mind you need a couple of AA batteries as well as replacements for the sensor every 200 uses.

Ancheta took control of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers, including two on US military bases, pulled them into a "zombie" network, and then rented them to gangs for mass spamming and attacks on various Web sites. For creating his cyber army, Ancheta faces four to six years in prison and will have to forfeit a 1993 BMW and more than $75,000 in fines and profits.

The Consumer Electronics Show has always been the premier event for seeing the latest technology, and this often includes tech that was developed for commercial, industrial, and even military purpose, then converted to suit consumer needs. So it comes as no surprise to see "infrared ray" technology being used for the most important need of hair drying! Kinyo will be introducing an FIR (Far Infrared Ray) hair dryer for later in 2007 (pricing to be announced)

Instead you have to move your ladder around the house and place it into each individual gutter by hand. iRobot CEO Colin Angle called it "a mini tank," explaining that the Looj uses some technology from the company's military research branch.

Blind people using the device have been able to sense other people in front of them, go through doorways, and even catch a ball. The military hopes to use the technology to give elite soldiers superior senses, leaving their eyes free to look out in front of them rather than at sonar and mapping devices.

This is great for military missions, since it can chill for a while just outside enemy territory waiting for the time to be right, swoop in at Mach 2, and blow up whatever freedom-haters we tell it to. The plane is still in development, though, and working models aren't expected to fly 'til around 2020, but the science is all there.

In the coming years the military will be outfitting their soldiers with some pretty crazy new gear, including, most notably, to ability to see through walls.Yes, the supersoldiers of the future will be able to see what's going on in a room without entering it by using a radar scope the size of a walkie-talkie.

Would you sign up for military service if you knew you would get to strut around in Master Chief's exoskeleton? No? Well, some people would, I'm sure. Work with me here

It adds that this advanced weapon might also have civilian uses, such as breaking up an asteroid that threatens Earth. Check out the diagram above to see how MEDUSA might work on military foes.

Billed as the world's most secure flash drive, the IronKey features military-grade AES hardware-based encryption to keep your data as safe as possible. In addition to that, if someone tries to break in and tries the wrong password 10 times, the drive will self-destruct, destroying all data on board and rendering it completely unrecoverable

Hitting stores tomorrow, the idiotically named phone is designed up to all sorts of military standards, making it able to handle temperatures up to 140 degrees, solar radiation, serious vibrations, getting dunked in water, or pretty much any other type of abuse that would fry a KRZR in two seconds. It also has GPS so you can figure out where the hell you wandered off to on your next safari and a 2-megapixel camera to take photos of you being very brave and adventurous.

I guess. And it's not some military-grade hack, either: you can pick one up for a mere $129.