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The Wicab BrainPort is a device that takes information gathered by a small digital camera in a pair of glasses and sends it to a "lollipop" electrode array that sits on your tongue. The device was designed to help people who are blind or who have extremely low vision.

The shortlived era of the throwable "camera grenade" may already be over, as beercan-sized, hurlable robots with infrared nightsight video are now being delivered to US troops. Tellingly, elite special-operations units have also decided to try the new kit out.

Capt. Andy Hale has just worked out and is still in a sweaty T-shirt and shorts as he stands in the battle command center. He is watching a flat screen display that shows what's happening outside on the bow and the aft.

Lifeboat used in April hijacking of cargo ship off Somali coast to be part of National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum

Officials at the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum reeled in a big catch Friday.

Whatever disagreements some voters and taxpayers might have with Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, the two U.S.

Before undocking from the International Space Station Tuesday, the crew aboard the shuttle Endeavour transferred nearly 1,200 pounds of water to the orbiting outpost. But one crewmember kept a small, but very special, set of water samples for the ride home.

The Special Operations Command has abandoned ASDS (Advanced Seal Delivery Systems, a small sub for getting SEALs to the beach), after it discovered that recent fire damage would cost $237 million, and take three years, to repair. Last November, the sole ASDS caught fire, and burned for six hours.

Recent events off Somalia involving U.S. Navy SEALs dramatically illustrated that terrorism takes many forms, from relatively well organized groups like al Qaeda to opportunist pirates working in lawless regions of the world.

It's a common, almost intuitive feeling among security professionals: Something's wrong here. Many call it the gut feeling.