Futuristic new helmets will enable fighter jet pilots to see through their own aircraft, the Ministry of Defence said today. The head gear is being developed for the hi-tech F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by MoD scientists.
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Oh, man, Mac--you really oughta use the picture of the helmet at the link for illustration--looks even weirder than those white mickey mouse gas masks being used in the republic of Georgia right now in urban riots there:
http://tinyurl.com/2n2nof
Ah, and you want a true, brain electrode-based, neural interface for military pilot (and other options for man-machine interface) control purposes? Look no further than:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3503/ and
http://www.systemstech.com/content/view/44/43/ and
http://tinyurl.com/2yamou
Of course, to avoid the messy, invasive business of brain thru skull electrode plug-in interfaces (or via wi-fi equivalent), one could use a layering of micro-squids (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices-->SQUID's)inside a helmet to control a direct, non-invasive, neural interface for command and control remote functions. I'm sure scientists somewheres are quietly working on it. Just not practical yet, tech-wise. "Real soon now."
Kinda reminds me of the "data- mining" helmet used in X-Men by the good mutant leader. Now that would be cool, like a quantum device to interface to web 3.X--virtual, real-time "neuromancer" like visual graphic expression of data associations at your mental frontal-lobe fingertips! Ha!
I've said too much! Ack! Heh. 8*}
Shades of Eastwood in "Foxfire"--"make it so", Picardian direct mental control via computerized interfaces? Yow. Limited only by the speed of light and brain reaction/response frequency rates.
Makes me wonder what the USAF is flying that we don't even know (publicly) about yet, eh?
Just make sure the nuclear-fusion missles are out of that loop to avoid accidental, pissed-off misfires. That's one "brain-fart" to be avoided.
The updated pic at the link reminds of something vaguely mantid.
I liked the reference to being able to "see" out the bottom of the JSF F-35 via infra-red. The future is becoming the now.
Some fighter helmets come close to resembling the wrap-around black eyes of the ubiquitous "Gray."
I think the writer was confusing "Terminator" and "Predator." I don't recall any see-through stuff in the Terminator movies though I haven't seen them for a while. But didn't the Predator have something like X-ray goggles that made it impossible for his human prey to hide from him?
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