21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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RAPID REPAIR. "Techniques for surviving massive blood loss and regrowing damaged lungs have been shown to work in animal trials, and Revolutionizing Prosthetics, a robotic artificial limb that links into the nervous system to behave and feel like a normal limb, is undergoing clinical trials at Johns Hopkins." https://lnkd.in/d-dYtnw View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2020-02-11 05:44:10

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UNDER THE RADAR. "In response to those critics, the agency already predisposed to clandestine research — decided to go underground. Program names were changed to dull their mad-scientist edge. Metabolic Dominance became Peak Soldier Performance. Augmented Cognition became Improving Warfighter Information Intake Under Stress." http://www.wired.com/2007/03/bemore/ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-02-11 05:42:04

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POLITICALLY CORRECT. "By 2008, the focus at DARPA was no longer human enhancement, it was performance optimization. Metabolic dominance research focused on re-engineering mitochondria, the body’s power plant, became Peak Soldier Performance, an investigation into over-the-counter nutritional supplements." https://lnkd.in/d-dYtnw View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2020-02-11 05:36:00

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"DARPA is also working on thought-controlled killer robots, “thought helmets” to enable telepathic communication and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to give soldiers extra senses, such as night vision and the ability to “see” magnetic fields caused by landmines." http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/the-future-is-android/ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2020-02-10 05:24:52

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EXOSKELETON. "The US military is pouring millions of dollars into projects such as Ekso Bionics’ Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC), an ‘Iron Man’-style wearable exoskeleton that gives soldiers superhuman strength." http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/the-future-is-android/ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-02-10 05:21:45

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AND A LOT MORE. "In 2002, Dr Joseph Bielitzki, chair of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, announced a grand program to improve soldiers, with the slogan “Be all that you can be, and a lot more.” His targets: sleep, fatigue, pain, and blood loss. Other projects studied psychological stress, memory, and learning." https://lnkd.in/d-dYtnw View in LinkedIn
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