Send In The Eyeball
from the hello-science-fiction dept
The FCC has given approval to an "eyeball camera" that police can use to try to get a better view of an ongoing situation. It sounds like something out of a science fiction story, but the technology isn't particularly complicated and, if anything, it's surprising this wasn't already in widespread use (it is in other countries, apparently). It's just a small camera with a wireless transmitter packed inside a "rugged rubber and polyurethane housing." Basically, it's a wireless camera the size of a baseball that the police can throw into a location to get a picture of what's going on. Of course, that "size of a baseball" bit seems problematic. Aren't most criminals going to notice when a big rubber baseball flies into the room where they're holding hostages?
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Surveillance Society
Will street cams give unprecedented opportunities for hoaxes like this too?
Web cam right next to where boy disappeared at
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scouting
Or maybe they could just setup speed cameras behind the plate at the stadiums which record photos of hot prospects.
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What if eyes can be blown out of bubbles?
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