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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
In Nagano (where they held the Olympics a few years ago), an 11-y.o. boy went missing after getting into an argument with his family. The internet has turned the incident into a feeding frenzy of people watching web cams of nearby highways. As part of the problem, a 23-y.o. woman claimed to have fed dinner to the boy and let him stay over -- but she turned out to be just lying.
Will street cams give unprecedented opportunities for hoaxes like this too?
Web cam right next to where boy disappeared at
http://www.lcv.jp/area/life/road/okaya/kamagutibashi.asx
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scouting
Cant wait to see the police force sending out scouts to all the high school and college baseball games to sign up new recruits. These cameras arent going to throw themselves!
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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cavity searches just got a lot more interesting
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Indeed!
A real balls up!
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"..and tonight on our six o'clock news report, a strange story of a policeman in New Jersey accused of rolling a camera ball into a ladies restroom..."
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