DARPA Working with Innovega for virtual reality contact lens and eyeware combination

Innovega iOptiks are contact lenses that enhance normal vision by allowing a wearer to view virtual and augmented reality images without the need for bulky apparatus. Instead of oversized virtual reality helmets, digital images are projected onto tiny full-color displays that are very near the eye. Innovega Demonstrates Megapixel Contact Lens Eyewear Over the past …

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DARPA pays hacker to develop $50 spy computer that can be dropped from drones

MSNBC – security researcher Brendan O’Connor is trying a different approach to spy hardware: building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that’s so cheap it can be sacrificed after one use, with off-the-shelf parts that anyone can buy and assemble for less than $50. At the Shmoocon security conference Friday in Washington, D.C., O’Connor presented the F-BOMB, …

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