Action and war movies have established that night-vision renders the darkened world as green, and this is an accurate reflection of what real military operators use. So do night-vision goggles present the world as green? Here’s the quick answer: according to Nat Geo’s Helicopter Wars, in an episode featuring the HH-60 Pave Hawk, the...
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Amazon.com has dropped the price of Assassin’s Creed II for Xbox 360 and PS3 down to $39.78, today only.
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A helmet-mounted radar unit seems redundant with the kind of crazy surveillance and intel they already have available or in the pipes, but hey, whatever helps our boys. While satellite and air-based imaging are invaluable to the modern field commander, an individual infantryman has little feedback in an more local tactical situation. So why...
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There are good children’s books that tell a good story and a moral lesson while being nice about it. And then there are children’s books that tell a bad story and a dubious moral lesson while being badass about it. And I don’t mean badass in a cool way either.
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A sequel for cult movie Tron was rumored to be in preparation for years now, and today Walt Disney Pictures has finally revealed a few tidbits of information about the reboot of the "virtual reality film". It will simply be called Tron (and not Tron 2, Tron 2.0 or "Tr2n") and we'll be able...
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