http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/military-camera-free-iphone-4s.html Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:00:57 +0000 Mobile operators are modifying the smartphones for defense personnel who are unable to bring cameras into camps.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/us-army-weapons-video-games.html Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:30:17 +0000 Branded rifles, communications gear, and more are to be introduced to popular games in order to boost recruitment.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/look-again-design-inspiration-on-the-uss-intrepid-pics.html Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:15:21 +0000 The PSFK Team looks at military decal from the past for creative inspiration to share with our readers. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/nato-commander-announced-end-of-libyan-war-on-facebook-headlines.html Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:10:19 +0000 The social media site has become an acceptable PR channel for the military alliance.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/military-struggles-to-find-helium-for-spy-blimp-surge-headlines.html Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:16:47 +0000 The Defense Logistics Agency is unable to keep up with the demand in Afghanistan to keep these surveillance tools in the air.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/new-heat-imaging-technology-makes-tanks-invisible.html Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:37:57 +0000 Adaptiv will be able to read a tank's immediate surroundings and mask it in different heat signatures. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/us-army-to-test-smartphones-for-use-in-combatheadlines.html Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:27:11 +0000 The US Army is testing several smartphones with nearly 4,000 soldiers at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to find the best one that would allow soldiers in combat to receive real-time images of insurgent movements.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/mod-releases-youtube-videos-warning-of-careless-talk-on-social-media-sites.html Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:20:23 +0000 Ministry of Defence urges servicemen and women, and their families, to be careful about sharing sensitive material online.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/james-bond-uses-cupcake-recipes-to-take-down-al-qaida-site-headlines.html Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:24:05 +0000 British spies sabotaged online jihadist magazine in English as part of cyber war against terrorists.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/budweiser-ad-coming-home-video.html Mon, 09 May 2011 08:59:10 +0000 A remarkable new commercial developed by Anomaly and shot by HSI Productions's Michael Haussman.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/data-transfer-via-light-itself.html Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:02:00 +0000 Breakthrough in advanced material research increases our ability to bend light spectrum to our communicative needs.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/monocolumn-america-changes-its-tone-towards-okinawa.html Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:07:25 +0000 The US-Japan relationship has not always been an equal one. However, a bruising visit to China last week made US Defense Secretary Robert Gates see Japan in an especially favourable light. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/monocolumn-japan-stands-by-its-pacifist-defence-strategy.html Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:50:17 +0000 Tokyo is preparing to publish its first national defence blueprint in over six years, and it may be ready to countenance a degree of change to its stay-at-home military philosophy. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/monocolumn-us%e2%80%99s-lighting-fighter-plane-fails-to-electrify-the-world.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:22:27 +0000 The US’s stealthy new fighter plane, the F-35 Lightning II, was designed to electrify the defence world and put every US-friendly air force beyond their enemies’ reach for decades to come.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/monocolumn-gps-takes-a-new-turn.html Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:46:51 +0000 Space is starting to get crowded. Japan’s space agency last week launched Michibiki – or “Pointing the Way” – the first in a new constellation of navigation satellites. It is the start of a new space race, which could improve daily life on Earth.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/us-armys-apps-for-the-army-competition-winners.html Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:02:15 +0000 The iPhone app's success inspired a military-funded 'Apps for the Army' contest earlier this year.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/dtv-shredder-an-all-terrain-skateboard-like-transportation-vehicle.html Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:42:15 +0000 The Dual Tracked Vehicle is built with a view to help soldiers deal with crisis situations in the battlefield.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/monocolumn-not-so-lethal-weapons.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:35:57 +0000 Starved of modern equipment, and with a small ageing fleet barely capable of defending the country’s huge airspace, Indonesia’s decision to buy 10 new Sukhoi fighter jets might not seem so strange.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/monocolumn-china-cheats-itself.html Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:15:24 +0000 China is famously hungry for resources and knowledge of all kinds – but military high technology whets the country’s billion-man appetite more than anything else.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/making-invisible-airspace-visible.html Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:16:14 +0000 How we perceive the rights of our space is questioned by Nelly Ben Hayoun and Dr. Allison J. Williams in their latest project. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/fictional-realistic-art-using-photoshop-cs5s-content-aware-fill.html Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:58:21 +0000 Tabor Robak takes advantage of the software's new feature to erase military vehicles and create scenic photos.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/scientists-create-a-new-metamaterial.html Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:18:19 +0000 A new lab-created substance reflects almost no light, making it possibly the darkest material ever. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/handheld-device-captures-biometrics-in-the-field.html Thu, 20 May 2010 16:25:10 +0000 A portable biometric tool captures data for military, law enforcement, and healthcare operations.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/darpa-aiming-to-develop-flying-cars-by-2015.html Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:32:38 +0000 The research agency of the US Military is looking to develop prototypes for flying cars.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/george-parker-take-my-country-please-take-my-country.html Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:04:51 +0000 George Parker is the perpetrator of adscam.typepad.com. Every week he shares his opinions on the advertising world with PSFK.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/iphone-application-controls-military-drones-aids-training.html Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:21:59 +0000 Former Navy pilot and current MIT aerospace engineer Mary Cummings has developed an iPhone application that allows users to control unmanned surveillance drones via mobile device.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/03/darpa-looking-to-develop-intelligent-cameras.html Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:09 +0000 DARPA, the experimental research arm of the United States Department of Defense is looking to create smart cameras that possess visual intelligence.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/pics-airless-tires-by-resilient-technologies.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:41:15 +0000 Make has shared some pictures of a prototype airless tire currently under development for the U.S. Military.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/adding-olfactory-data-to-military-simulations.html Tue, 19 May 2009 19:41:46 +0000 The Ministry of Defense in the UK is working on a project that will allow video-game based military training simulations to release realistic smells as an added sensorial dimension. It’s hoped that by adding this extra sense data during training, soldiers will pay attention to the subtle information relayed by scent in the battlefield, and use it to their advantage. Commercial applications are expected to follow. Mail Online reports: Professor Bob Stone, research director of the Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre (HFIDTC) at Birmingham University, believes the technique could save soldiers’ lives. ‘Let’s say a unit is passing throughRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/us-navy-stresses-need-for-caution-in-robot-design.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:08:04 +0000 We’ve recently heard way too many stories about the dangers of chimpanzees, but what about the dangers of future “life-forms”, like robots? Daily Tech points us to a recent US Navy funded report that presses the need for caution in designing any kind of robot designed for defense. Complex and semi-autonomous artificial intelligence powered robots could pose very real dangers if not designed carefully to differentiate between “good” and “bad” targets. The US Army encountered a harrowing situation earlier this year, when a software malfunction caused war robots to aim (but not fire) at friendly targets. Daily Tech explains: RobotsRead more...]]>