Apple plus Pentagon equals Military Wearable Tech
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Posted on 09/01/2015 4:32:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The Pentagon has partnered with Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), and 159 other private companies and universities to develop wearable tech for military use.
"I've been pushing the Pentagon to think outside our five-sided box and invest in innovation here in Silicon Valley and in tech communities across the country," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said at Moffett Airfield near Mountain View, Calif. on Friday. "Now we're taking another step forward."
Carter announced the creation of a new institute in San Jose called "Flexible Hybrid Electronic Institute." The institute will work to develop manufacturing techniques and new applications for flexible electronics.
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Made in China?
If their box is only five-sided then a bunch of stuff is falling out the bottom.
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Who says the open side is on the bottom?
I nominate your post as the post of this thread.
And it’s just starting.
You nailed it.
Thanks for the heads up. . .
Why? Are you aware that Apple manufactures the MacPro in Austin, Texas, and the iMac in Elk Grove, California? The last time I looked, those were still in the United States. I don't know where Apple will be making the military wearables, but neither do you. I do know they will be designed in California.
Come on now.
China manufactures nearly everything they make in China.
What are they doing, speaking to the US military?
And why don’t they make more stuff right here in America?
Sorry. Sentence 2: Apple manufactures nearly everything they make in China.
Excuse the typo.
Ask that same question of HP, Motorola, Microsoft, Intel, Google, RCA, PackardBell, Dell, Alien Ware, Compaq, Oracle, Cisco, Vizio, IBM, and several hundred more. . . all of which make fewer computers, components, and products in the United States than does Apple, and few of which do any designing in the United States at all.
Does Apple have too much money burning a hole in its pocket?
Watches, maybe. Ditto beefed up set top digital TV boxes.
But movie production?
Wearable army gear?
Teaming up with Cisco to go after the enterprise?
Apple did okay coming out with one game-changer at a time. iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad ... along with some nice ecosystem stuff to make all of these perpetual cash cows (iTunes store).
But these half-dozen stories tell me that Apple is trying to recast itself as a tech luxury brand that takes on everything, which in itself is not a core competency.
I know they have to spend their profits on SOMETHING, but when I think of these things I just imagine Chrysler air conditioners and Exxon office computers.
Active Duty ping.
I remember getting a newsletter from a guy who was touting the HUGE upside to “high tech wearables” controlled by the Apple Watch....several months ago
His opinion was that this would be a gold mine for investors.
this is the first evidence that I know of, that he may have been 100 percent correct.
Thank you
i'm thinking Winchester spatulas and washing machines. . . yes, they did indeed make such things back in the 1920s. I had a Winchester spatula until my ex-wife tossed it into a package to go to the Salvation Army. It was worth quite a pretty penny too. She "borrowed" it to use because she couldn't find hers and knew I had it in my Winchester collection and needed to frost a cake. . . and somehow didn't put it back. Then it got in the duplicate kitchen stuff that went to the Salvation Army when she was cleaning stuff out. . . and only remembered it wasn't hers to toss out after the stuff was gone. If I recall correctly it was worth around $200. . . GRRRRRR..
As I recall, Winchester even tried its hand at manufacturing vacuum cleaners for a while. Those are very rare. . . they sucked (almost as badly as their post 64 model 94 rifles). heheheheh. At least I remember seeing some photographs of the broom type Winchester vacuum cleaners.
In any case, Winchester expanded beyond their core expertise and it was not successful.
I am thinking this may be more of something that attaches to or can be slipped into uniform sleeves. . . perhaps an iPhone derivative that can control drones, give GPS directions, keep tabs on soldier's health, reporting back to the squad leader, pass on changes in orders, directions, etc.
By wearables the writer was referring to everything that could be worn or carried that used the iphone as a number cruncher. He mentioned that the uses were very nearly limitiess
What percentage are from parts from China? cpu, memory, network card, motherboard, etc.
The backdoors can get put in place via hardware, before being “assembled in the USA”.
sorry, but I don’t trust our military equipment being made in a nation that is technically our enemy.
Yeah, you are on a mission in enemy territory and your watch goes off informing you that “You have mail!.....
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