{"id":17961,"date":"2013-01-30T08:12:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8170"},"modified":"2013-01-30T08:12:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T16:12:49","slug":"darpa-tech-cool-with-a-side-of-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/darpa-tech-cool-with-a-side-of-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"DARPA tech: Cool with a side of creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generating 600 GB of data <em>per second<\/em> (eat your heart out, RED cam), the 1.8-gigapixel ARGUS camera will hitch a ride on drones, spotting targets as small as six inches from an altitude of 20,000 feet. TechCrunch <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/01\/28\/darpa-builds-a-1-8-gigapixel-camera-that-can-spot-six-inch-targets-from-20000-feet\/ \">reports<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The camera uses 368 five-megapixel camera sensors aimed through a telescopic array to pick out birds in flight and humans on the move on the Earth\u2019s surface. ARGUS stands for Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGxNyaXfJsA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nElsewhere, acronym-lovin&#8217; DARPA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/announcements\/darpas_open_call_to_design_next-generation_amphibious_vehicle_23944.asp \">wants you to design<\/a> an amphibious Fast, Adaptable, Next-Generation Ground Vehicle (FANG). Somehow I&#8217;m kinda weirded out by their appropriating a breezy whiteboard aesthetic more often seen in TED talks:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TMa1657gYIE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generating 600 GB of data per second (eat your heart out, RED cam), the 1.8-gigapixel ARGUS camera will hitch a ride on drones, spotting targets as small as six inches from an altitude of 20,000 feet. TechCrunch reports, The camera uses 368 five-megapixel camera sensors aimed through a telescopic array to pick out birds in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}