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Brain Caps courtesy of DARPA
Posted by deShaman on Aug 21, 2005 06:35PM (PST)
from the Soldier Tech dept.
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Brain Caps. Navy Cmdr. Dylan Schmorrow wants to put “brain caps” on soldiers to improve their ability to take in new information under stress. Schmorrow, a Darpa program manager in the Information Processing Technology Office, is a naval aerospace experimental psychologist. The concept is based on the fact that humans can only handle so much information at any given time. As a result, “complex human-machine interactive environments” common in the military often fail under stress, according to a description of the program.
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First EHPA, now this . . .
by Macavity on Aug 23, 2005 05:22AM (PST)
I wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing people like the Master Chief from HALO on the battlefield!
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