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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#15 You divorced your wife over a Winchester spatula? : )
Throwing out your old comic books I understand!
You sure read a lot into a story. No, that event happened twenty years before the divorce. . . and had nothing to do with it, except for being an example of her passive aggressive behavior and some carelessness.
No my Mom did that while I was away at college — including the original Superboy with the first appearance of Bizzaro. . . would be worth about $350 today. . . along with some original Carl Bark's Scrooge McDuck's Comics. . . that are worth more.
162 companies are in on it, amazing.
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