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Nicholas Toth hunched over his lathe with sweat on his brow and a smile on his face. The sound of brass being shaved to the exact width he needed put that smile there. “In a lot of respects I feel ...

Scuba diving is incredibly dangerous, because human beings are not designed to live underwater. Sure, we’ve gotten pretty good at designing machines that work where it’s wet, but personal travel ...

Tony Stark, eat your heart out. A futuristic new helmet designed by Navy engineers could allow divers to see and track everything from the above-water view of their location to diagrams to text ...

New high-tech diving helmets being developed by the U.S. Navy will incorporate augmented-reality tech to keep naval divers safe on underwater missions. The U.S. Navy announced this month a ...

Navy divers face one persistent problem in underwater missions: low visibility. The Naval Surface Warfare Center has been developing its own solution, the Divers Augmented Vision Display, or DAVD. The ...

The helmet features a high-resolution, see-through head-up display. — -- The U.S. Navy seems to be looking to Iron Man for a little inspiration. Earlier this month, the Navy announced that it was ...