Sunday, 8. July 2007
Topic: Wearable PC - on July 8, 2007 at 2:05:00 PM CEST
Defense Department offers $1 million for wearable power supply
The Department of Defense wants to pay you $1 million to come up with a lightweight "wearable power" battery pack for soldiers. The DoD says typical soldier going out for a four-day mission carries as much as 40 pounds of batteries and rechargers in his pack and it wants to fix that. The goal is to reduce the weight for the power system that drives radios, night-vision devices, global positioning systems and other combat gear, including a recharging system, to about 2 pounds per day The DoD is looking to mimic the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which has experienced successes using contests to attract competitors to develop innovative unmanned vehicles and other objects.
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