Now, Pay Attention 007...
Apr. 30th, 2005 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerThe latest in tactical surveillance equipment: the Remington Eye Ball.
Yeah, basically it's a wireless webcam in an olive-green softball, with the added gimmick of a rotating base to let it peek around once you've tossed it into the area of interest. But I think what I like so much about this is that it out-and-out looks like something a Hollywood props department would come up with for a medium-budget action movie.
One problem does occur to me, however. If you were a potentially jumpy and aggressive suspect holed up with a bunch of hostages, and the police threw something small and round into your hidey-hole, would you assume it was:
a) A stun grenade, heralding the arrival of the SWAT team.
b) A tear-gas grenade, ditto (but with respirators)
c) A bog-standard hand grenade, which would actually be a very stupid thing for anyone to throw in, but hey, you're probably not thinking clearly right now
d) A cure little rolling webcam to give the cops a warm reassured feeling that they're in control of the situation.
MC
Yeah, basically it's a wireless webcam in an olive-green softball, with the added gimmick of a rotating base to let it peek around once you've tossed it into the area of interest. But I think what I like so much about this is that it out-and-out looks like something a Hollywood props department would come up with for a medium-budget action movie.
One problem does occur to me, however. If you were a potentially jumpy and aggressive suspect holed up with a bunch of hostages, and the police threw something small and round into your hidey-hole, would you assume it was:
a) A stun grenade, heralding the arrival of the SWAT team.
b) A tear-gas grenade, ditto (but with respirators)
c) A bog-standard hand grenade, which would actually be a very stupid thing for anyone to throw in, but hey, you're probably not thinking clearly right now
d) A cure little rolling webcam to give the cops a warm reassured feeling that they're in control of the situation.
MC
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Date: 2005-04-30 07:39 am (UTC)e) A cute little rolling webcam thrown in by journalists trying to get an exclusive and rather less subtle than the professionals feeding optical fibres through air vents, drains and hand-drilled holes in walls...
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Date: 2005-04-30 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-02 08:56 am (UTC)(Oddly, I wrote that exact scenario for a SW short last month, but wisely I gave the entry team some thin strip sensors that they could slide into gaps in the doors without spooking the bad guys inside.)
What became of the smart-dust they were working on for battlefield use, by the way?