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Lockheed Martin has received a ten-year, $1 billion contract from the FBI to develop and maintain the Next Generation Identification system, which will expand fingerprint capacity to double the size of its current database, and incorporate palm print, iris, and facial recognition capabilities.

Smart Target has developed a wireless proximity alarm system designed to boost child safety by helping parents quickly locate wayward young ones and keep them within a pre-set "virtual fence".

The Air Force has given Wei Shyy, chair of the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Michigan, grants totaling more that $1 million a year to research small flapping-wing UAVs.

The soon-to-be-launched Waveboat is part of an emerging trend of using the PWC as a dockable powerplant for a larger craft, significantly extending versatility and recreational options.

Construction has begun on an integrated cellulose and starch ethanol commercial demonstration facility in Montana which will utilize non-food ethanol feedstocks in combination with a variety of traditional starch and sugar sources.

The Computer-Human Interface has a new heavyweight contender - brain computer interface technology pioneer Emotiv Systems will have its EPOC neuroheadset to market before Christmas 2008.

Once prey to an industry that hunted them almost to extinction, whales today face a new threat – violent encounters with ships and pleasure craft. French biologist Michel André has pioneered a groundbreaking solution. Julian Cribb reports.

It's quite a claim, but in the quest to prove that the XP1 is the world's toughest phone Sonim Technologies has seen its rugged handset run over by a truck, burnt, encased in concrete, used as a soccerball and even attached to fireworks.

The EU funded €5.4 million BIOTACT project is seeking to replicate the rat’s highly efficient whisker system, which can accurately determine the shape of objects and help capture prey.

QSTARZ has released the BT-Q1000 Platinum - a Bluetooth GPS Travel Recorder that pairs with your PDA or Smartphone to provide satellite navigation and allows users to record up to 200,000 waypoints.

One of the stand-out automotive design concepts from back in 2005 has re-emerged in the guise of modern art. The Mercedes-Benz bionic concept car is appearing as part of the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition at New York's Museum of

HI-TEC has launched an environmentally friendly golf shoe made from 99% sustainable materials.