Now, Pay Attention 007...

The 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

Hay Lecturer on Ch4

For those of you who either missed Armand Leroi's Hay Lecture at Eastercon, or saw it and want to find out more, Channel 4 are repeating Human Mutants, the series based on his book. It's being shown at 12.15 am this coming Monday to Wednesday (or Tuesday to Thursday for the pedantic). This is presumably tied in to the UK paperback publication of Dr Leroi's book.

Earlier those evenings Ch4 is also showing a series based on Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by his colleague Olivia Judson. It will be interesting to see what they make of it...

MC