What Happens When The Military Goes To IML...
Good morning all, and welcome back to our second week here at Homotron, the new wing of the Gay Gamer Castle. While perusing the weekend news (and cleaning up from the castle warming party), I stumbled upon what I thought was an ad for the International Mr. Leather (IML) gala event held here in Chicago every year. After a bit of closer inspection, I realized that this interesting picture to the right has more to do with the real military than the fetish-ized military commonly seen at IML.
The British military is investing a large chunk of change in this mega-high-tech helmet, to the tune of $139 million a piece! That sounds like a hefty price tag, but wait till you hear what it does. The tinted face plate projects images directly into the pilots field-of-view that sync up with cameras all over the plane. Sensors within the helmet know where the pilot is looking and adjust the high-resolution image displays accordingly. To top it off, data can be streamed into the helmet like symbols the denote friendlies and hostiles, flight information, and GPS guided directions to the nearest Starbucks where the Artist of the Month will automatically pop-up and guide the user to a purchase screen.
Even though the thing looks gaudy, if it does the things it claims, I can only assume it's worth the price of admission.
New helmet allows fight pilots to peer through the jet [Engadget]
Jesse James
Posted to In the World on 12 November 2007
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I fully expect those things to attack David Tennant in the next season of Doctor Who.
Still, I like how the heavy-lidded eyes make it look kind of sleepy, like an angry cyborg that just needs a nap.
Just to pick nits, it's International Mr. Leather, not International Male Leather.
Oh, good call, I'll update that now, thanks Art Dahm!
It *does* look sleepy. Which, if it's been out being flogged all night in preparation for IML, makes a certain amount of sense.
To pick nits even further, the helmet itself doesn't actually cost $139 million, as I read it. The entire Joint Strike Fighter jet that it's being developed for costs $139 million a piece.
Still and all, I want this to be included as an optional feature on my next car. Just think how many children you could frighten driving down the highway with this sucker on.