Spooky Doo - the robotic dogs are coming

Filed under "signs of the Apocolypse" - You have to see this to believe it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

Use radar to see thru brick walls

While not cutting-edge (this came out in 2006), this is still ground-breaking. Prism 200 provides the ability to see thru brick and concrete walls and display the location of occupants using Ultra-Wideband Radar.

http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/prism200.shtml

Chinese Trojan Horse

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&type=tech

Cyber command

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/02/cyber_command?currentPage=all

Russia flexing military muscles

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/11/russian.bomber/index.html

Iran and Syria against US & Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/826953.html

Russia + China + India to counter US

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1386812.ece

Russia rebuilding Army:

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russia_Makes_Moves_To_Revive_Army_999.html

First Russia & China military exercise

...batten the hatches! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2204006.ece

21st century pack mule from MIT

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/exoskeleton-0919.html

Automatic translators in development, not far off (DARPA)

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22844

Translation devices in use by military and police.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/24034

Kitty used for Camo

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/weapons/zone3/slideshow/slideshow.html

Railgun: uses electricity to propel projectiles

Railgun: Uses electricity to inexpensively propel projectiles at incredible speeds, with an impact like hitting a solid object "going 380 mph in a (white) Ford Taurus" http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/18/navy-develops-8-megajoule-railgun-nukem-bows-down

PHaSR: Laser weapon which temporarily blinds a person

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personnel_Halting_and_Stimulation_Response_rifle

Cigarette plasma thrusters

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) powered by plasma thrusters the size of cigarettes:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9854271-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20