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TrackingPoint has introduced their new series 500 AR rifles , the rifle platform is probably one of the all time favorite sporting and law enforcement weapons in the U.S , but in a world full of technology ,the process of target accusation has mostly been conducted manually , but now Trackingpoint has gone one step further and introduced their latest digital target accusation system which does the job of a range finder , ballistics computer and wifi streamer . The system is calibrated upto 750 yards and it has a 2-12x magnification and a gyroscope for target lock stabilization . The system can track and lock on to targets using its TTX (Tag,track Xact) technology and fire using the guided trigger . The built 802.11 WIFI streamer allows the system to stream video directly from the optics onto a mobile device via the 14.6 MP CMOS sensor . The Trackingpoint Precision guided firearm system is chambered in either 5.56NATO , 7.62 NATO and 300 Blackout , prices start at $9950 for the entry...

What if you could dress a wound the way you fix a tire? That's the idea behind Xstat Dressing, an in-development technology that would allow medics to easily dress gunshots or other deep wounds on the battlefield — and it was inspired by the foam used to fix flat tires. "That's what we pictured as the perfect solution: something you could spray in, it would expand, and bleeding stops," former medic and RevMedx co-founder John Steinbaugh told Popular Science. "But we found that blood pressure is so high, blood would wash the foam right out." So instead of foam, Xstat uses small, expandable sponges. The sponges — which are standard medical sponges that have been compressed and coated with a hemostatic agent called chitosan — take just 15 seconds to expand once they're in the wound. They help with clotting and slowing blood flow, while providing enough pressure that no manual pressure is needed. Each sponge is also marked so that it can be seen by an X-ra...

PHOTO     Nick Leghorn/Thetruthaboutguns The Colt SWORD (Sniper Weapon& Observer Reconnaissance Devices) Technology Demonstrator connects a variety of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) and MOTS (Military Off-The-Shelf) components together into a deployable package. The system is hard to describe in a single sentence. Colt describe it as “a Small Arms Fire Control System based upon Colt Canada’s Patented Small Arms Network Power Data System”. It is probably best described as a local area wireless network of sensors, communications, power systems and video feeds that can receive and transmit data to/from a wider area military or government networks if required. The heart of the system is a 3G wireless base station. The base station is a fully integrated battery powered system that can be connected to external systems via. satellite modems if required. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of the base station, just imagine a green rectangular box about 12″x12″x4″ with tw...