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up and down, and the radio hidden in his camouflage suit springs to
existence, blaring Mandarin pop. It runs on energy generated when
he actions on cells embedded in his operating shoes, and by
motion-sensitive canisters in his pockets. The hope is ultimately
to operate bigger gadgets like mobile phones this way. Lee is a
human-power harvesting engineer in Singapore's Mixed Reality
Lab.Mixed Reality is operating on new ways of interacting with
computer systems, ranging from wearable gadgets to a virtual war
space that will permit officials to function online as if they had
been all in one location. Its director is really a spiky-haired
Australian, a postmodern match for James Bond's gadget man, Q. It's
funded by the Defence Science & Technology Agency, Singapore's
answer to DARPA, the secretive Pentagon research unit that helped
spawn the Internet. The DSTA controls half the $5 billion defense
budget, and sponsors hundreds of projects each year. It came to
worldwide attention last year when its researchers took one day to
customize a thermal scanner to detect travelers with high fever,
helping to stem the spread of SARS.DSTA projects are now attracting
attention in both the commercial and military worlds. It's devised
an air-conditioning system that harnesses melting ice and cool
seawater to conserve electricity at the new Changi Naval Base, and
could have broad civilian applications. It's working on 3-D
projects with the potential to revolutionize videogames and home
shopping, including the virtual Japanese garden, in which surfers
navigate with a paddle in three dimensions, rather than a cursor in
two.Much of the agency's function is in customizing gear for the
needs of a small city-state in a tropical climate, says its
director of R&D, William Lau Yue Khei. It is funding
development of a biochem suit made of a revolutionary plastic-like
material that is much lighter and cooler than traditional fabrics,
and actually degrades suspect substances on contact. It's
computerizing a stealth warship to operate with half the usual
crew. Making equipment lighter is a specialty, in order to ease the
burden carried by soldiers considerably smaller than their European
counterparts, says DSTA project manager Choo Hui Weing. 1 such
program, the Advanced Combat Man System, has produced a lightweight
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