[tt] US Military Issuing iPod Touches To Soldiers

[Brian Atkins]

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/2312233

"Newsweek has an article about the latest weapons in the US military's arsenal. 
The iPod Touch and the iPhone are being adapted as general purpose handhelds for 
soldiers in the field. 'Apple gadgets are proving to be surprisingly versatile. 
Software developers and the US Department of Defense are developing military 
software for iPods that enables soldiers to display aerial video from drones and 
have teleconferences with intelligence agents halfway across the globe. Snipers 
in Iraq and Afghanistan now use a "ballistics calculator" called BulletFlight, 
made by the Florida firm Knight's Armament for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Army 
researchers are developing applications to turn an iPod into a remote control 
for a bomb-disposal robot (tilting the iPod steers the robot). In Sudan, 
American military observers are using iPods to learn the appropriate etiquette 
for interacting with tribal leaders.'"

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Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/