iPod of war!

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To help soldiers make sense of data from drones, satellites and ground sensors, the U.S. military now issues the iPod Touch.

Well I guess its now the second best thing to a Humvee which a civilian can own :D

The iPod also fulfills the U.S. military's need to equip soldiers with a single device that can perform many different tasks.

Users can add phrases to language software, annotate maps and link text or voice recordings to photos ("Have you seen this man?").

Snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan now use a "ballistics calculator" called BulletFlight, made by the Florida firm Knight's Armament for the iPod Touch and iPhone.

Army researchers are developing applications to turn an iPod into a remote control for a bomb-disposal robot (tilting the iPod steers the robot).

In Sudan, American military observers are using iPods to learn the appropriate etiquette for interacting with tribal leaders.
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Source: U.S. Soldiers' New Weapon: an iPod | Newsweek International Edition | Newsweek.com
 
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