Acoustic Device Detects IEDs From A Distance

Credit: Purdue University
Three years of work in bomb-detection technology has paid off for the U.S. Office of Naval Research, which in 2010 funded a five-year, $7 million multi-university pro-gram to detect improvised explosive devices (IED) from safe distances. Researchers developed a system that uses a sonic beam from a...

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