Bug-Eyed Warriors: Revolutionary New Night Sight Enhances Troops' Combat Vision

British frontline troops will soon be able to see better in the dark using a revolutionary night sight modelled on the eyes of a tiny parasite.

The digital device, worn over one eye and attached to a helmet, will allow soldiers to spot an enemy out of the corner of their eyes without even moving their head.

The device has been developed from studies into the 50 raspberry-like eyes of the Xenos peckii insect - a tiny bug that lives inside the bodies of paper wasps.

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Comments

[Stilts9]

Yaaaaay! More new war equipment for the war profiteers!

[Tom Joad]

now the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Combat Brigade can break in ny doors at night.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/

[ExpatInEurope2008]

Better ways to kill people who's country we want to rape?

[bascombe]

just like the borg. now any country with oil can be colonized at night.

[jesuswazasocialist]

Resistance is futile ... we will now take you mineral resources and add them to our own.

[Clairvaux]

They will greet us as liberators.

[RogerRantjet]

Looks like it would be great for driving in today's traffic conditions.