Raytheon's Pilot Helmet From the Future, Today

Raytheon is a name you may associate with turgid-sounding defense tech, but rarely anything that may rank as cool. This may change: It's just unveiled its Scorpion helmet digital info tech, which may sound familiar to fans of Blue Thunder.

Scorpion isn't a helmet by itself--it's an insert to existing helmets that injects a huge chunk of 21st Century wow factor into the business of flying a combat aircraft (which, lets face it, has quite a large wow factor all by itself). Designed to be...