A Lightweight Display Brings Instant Army Intelligence to Your Wrist

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They should add the soilders medical information and live heart rate, bp , and other usefull info to help in the field doctors. They could link it to a blue tooth to give voice commands to keep hands free. This could lead to so many things. This could be the first step in a long line to cool inventions.

You could use these during your own day too. If they could use a computer hookup you could put stuff like shopping lists on them.

This technology sounds amazing, but just makes me think about how our army's yearly budget could probably feed a few starving nations for a number of years. But hey whatever helps those troops!

its not just about what helps the troops though.
most of the technological advances weve seen in the past 50 years have been governments applications that eventually trickle into commercial markets.

I find that there is nothing that revolutionizes science more than war. Throughout history, war has been the single strongest kick in the pants to the scientific community.

And those starving nations would rather hear about this awesome new technology, I'm sure. However, with advances in making crops more durable and sustainable, perhaps someone will make them more abundant as well.

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Wartime sucks, but always brings an increase in technological innovation.
The more tech a soldier carries to keep him safe the heavier the load he must carry which keeps him unsafe.
Colin Chapman once said the secret of technological success is to "Add Lightness".

I think it's sad it takes wars to kick the technology drive in the butt. We should be thinking year round how to improve life for all. Be it communication tech to better crop development... I think its great that government money can give tech a huge push really fast, but all too often humans wait till they need it instead of thinking ahead for it. Priorities need changing, better outcomes are just as possible without war being the catalyst.

This US Army/HP Labs flexible computer looks the device featured in the CGI animated Final Fatansy the Spirits Within film. Though the one character used was holographic it had the same functions this one will have when completed. This device could eventually be used be paramedics in ambulances, doctors & nurses in hospitals and military field hospitals as well. It could allow are troops access to satelite info in real time, receive in the field updated intel on the enemy and any number of things.

I would love to something like this on my arm, though I would have to wait awhile for it to get out of R&D. I wouldn't mind seeing it trickle into the civilian markets either, this device sounds great for rangers and such.

Throw in the ability to analyze water samples and it would be a backpacker's dream

actually, there has been many innovations and breakthroughs in science and engineering that had nothing to do with military applications first..such as hydraulics..the original water clocks..just watch the history channel and they have shows that illustrate that many times in the dim and distant past things have been invented that only later someone used for war....i agree war does bring out great ways to kill ourselves as well as innovations in other ways.....but i wouldnt state absolutes that we only make innovations or breakthroughs because of military or war endavours...., anyway..regarding this wrist computer..its a poor one compared to many you can find online....others with GPS, dead reckoning tech, bluetooth, sd card slots, USB hosts, speakers..even some with WIFI...just a few of the things ive seen..heck, you can even work on getting voice recognition software..fair enough theyre more bulky...just the ideas it conjurs up should be the driving force here..ok..flexible unbreakable screen is a great thing..but they need to go a lot further if they want ensure soldiers safety...a lifesigns reader is a good one too..something that can monitor your pulse and temperature..

Fingerprint scan, voice print search, even retinal could be put on this thing so you could better ID the bad guys

I keep thinking... what if it gets shot then will it hold up? It says it can withstand a mallet but who brings mallets to war nowadays.

The increased reliance on tech is as always, alarming to those who know what conditions are like when at their worst. If I were enemy to the U.S., I would be looking to snatch this tech as soon as it is being proven, reverse engineer it so I could take advantage of the hardened circuitry, and the comm channels that are outside those that we jam. The ability for an enemy to know our troop placements in a combat scenario is only a matter of snatching one of these-or one of the other Forcenet technologies, and acquiring a passcode that is already held in the device. Anyone that has ever read a book on modern computers knows that a password is no good at all if someone can actually put hands on the device. Once again, as we rely more on tech to save us, we rely less on hard won battle skills and human based battlefield awareness. Enemies Will use this stuff against us, as in the past.

Great machine but it too big now, can they make it smaller?
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unless u been on the ground , u dont know how useful this device can be to every soldier on foot.im sure they will fix all the kinks in it. And its about time they apply some advance technology to ur average grunt. now all they need to do is come up with better night vision instead of the nvs-14 we use that are a pain in the ass to wear

essol323, would you trust your life and the lives of your friends to this thing against a technically advanced foe, like the Chinese? GET REAL,and yes, I do know exactly how handy this could be, in the best of all worlds, fighting a technology inferior country. In a theater of ops where the terrain all looks the same, and every person you see can be an enemy, yeah, I know. But. The sad fact is that we are owned by what we own. Gonna spare rounds and give up your position to blow the stuff your light infantry buddy just went down wearin? Gonna carry it? Then a cuppla more guys get hit, then what? That's the kinda war YOU probably haven't seen yet. Real as it gets, kid.

@ sean_siders: yes it would be really cool if that were possible but in a device of that size and weight it is very hard to fit those things since it would have to be somehow connected to the person. the possible way of doing this is to make the wrist band thats holding the device feel the persons pulse but then if somebody else put on the same device the doctors wouldn't know who it is (who's date is being sent). so the device would somehow have to be completely connected to its owner, once and for all. this would be extremely useful for the army but very have to make. i have no idea how to make something like this but i agree that it is a great idea.

@ sean_siders: Bluetooth wouldn't work if the soldier was more than 10 meters away from the receiver so it would never work that way. it could however broadcast the date through a satellite which would allow the doctors and other people to receive the data from the other side of the globe. also voice commands would be good to keep the hands free to shoot and do other things but if your in a very loud area (battlefield for example) then the voice commands would have no point and that when you would need them the most. this is a very good idea but impractical with today's technology. if the voice command technology where to improve then this idea would be a superb addition to this device.

something they could add to this could be that since it would be linked to a satellite it would have internet everywhere you could look up things in the army database like: weapon kinds, different types of war machines, ect. this would also mean that you could have a visual connection to your superior and report on your mission, ect.

@ Xenthis: i agree that this would be very useful for many everyday functions: shopping list (as you said) but also things like parking spaces: you would ask this device to show you a up to date (up to this minute) map of the parking and then tell you how many parking spaces there are, where, and then maybe even give you directions on how to get there. this would save a lot of pointless driving around. also this could be used for internet, a phone, emails (if this was made touch screen then you could type your messages) (i don't know if this is already touch screen) and text messages. some entertainment functions could be: music, video. and maybe there could be a built in webcam so you can go to Skype and have a video chat.

You could use these during your own day too. If they could use a computer hookup you could put stuff like shopping lists on them. Don't you think ?

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