June 22, 2004
cool gadgets....
...The U.S. Army is sending more than three hundred Commander’s Digital Assistant (CDA) hand held computers to Iraq with platoon leaders and company commanders later this year. This CDA is a new design, based on experience with CDAs sent to Iraq last year. The CDA is basically a militarized PDA (Personal Digital Assistant, like the Palm). PDA technology is changing so fast, especially by traditional military procurement standards, that the army expects to have a new version of the CDA every year or so. The 2005 model (shipping out later this year) will have satellite phone capability and be able to download maps, along with instructions overlayed on the maps.... (via Donald Sensing)Posted by John Weidner at June 22, 2004 09:46 PM | TrackBack
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I wonder how long until they just put a chip into the brain. I wonder if that will ever be possible../
Posted by: Andrew Cory at June 22, 2004 10:03 PMWelll, they are already starting to implant chip-like things for artificial hearing and sight, at least experimentally. My guess is that you will live to see it... Or should I say "hear it." Brinnng. Brinnng. "Good evening, Mr Cory. I'm conducting a brief opinion survey. Please blink once to answer 'yes', and twice to answer 'no'."
Posted by: John Weidner at June 24, 2004 06:37 PMOn a reasonably similar note, one of the projects I'm involved with:
http://pda.healthnet.org/
Posted by: Lance Jonn Romanoff at June 26, 2004 05:05 PM
