New Helmet Allows Joint Strike Fighter Pilots to “See” “Through” the Plane

Normally this blog is about tech you can buy but while scrounging the internet’s we found this high-tech piece of military equipment and it’s just so cool we couldn’t resist.  The new helmet is designed for use in the Yet-to-be-manufactured Joint Strike Fighter (a co-operative venture between the militaries of the United States and Great Britain.)  The helmet is designed with an internal HUD that displays high-definition video from cameras strategically placed around the hull of the fighter jet allowing the pilot to literally see things that would have been blocked from view by the fuselage.
In order to ensure the pilot is actually seeing what he’s looking at (in this case, pointing his head at) there’s a sophisticated motion tracking system and a computer that syncs the projected “virtual” world with the actual world.
Not only does this device sound like something you’d see in Halo or some other first person shooter, the technology will no doubt trickle down in the years to come and find its way into consumer devices (remember, the Internet was a military computer network to begin with!)
If you want your own, you have to join the armed forces and wait with your fingers crossed or shell out $139 million dollars like the Brit’s are planning to do when the Strike Fighter goes into production.