On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Fred Townsend <[email protected]>wrote:
> ...BTW the military now uses a lot of COTS products. COTS means Commercial > Off > The Shelf. That's mostly because COTS works well and is a whole lot > cheaper.... > --------- Yeah, here's a story about that: one of my sons is a researcher at Penn State engineering some stuff for the Navy that involves position/motion sensors. They were using a MilSpec gadget that cost hundreds of dollars, but they replaced it with some stuff from the inside of a Wii that cost 60 cents and worked much better. Now they (and many others) are building gadgets based on hacking up a Kinect. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
