Comments on: Video – British Police Spy Drone

By: GetSmart

GetSmart — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:04:31 +0000

Your kid’s SuperSoaker waterpistol of mass destruction filled with water thinned black latex paint should discourage these flying pests. Or a nice big tank of compressed air and a gravity fed superball machine gun made out of PVC pipe. ( You can order those small superballs like are in the quarter vending machines by the case.) Or a full auto paintball gun, and experiment with replacing the colored goo in the paintballs with something more permanently sticky. The possibilities for fun are near limitless.

By: KVolk

KVolk — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:38:48 +0000

so you combine this idea with this one: http://tinyurl.com/yayxso
and it gets even more sci fi like…

By: Cinaedh

Cinaedh — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:25:14 +0000

I was fascinated by all the anti-spy eye potential solutions but I suspect most of them would fail. This is just a prototype.

The real ones are gonna be a whole hell of a lot smaller and that’s going to make them difficult to hear or to see – as well as to counter.

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:20:48 +0000

#20 – When OFTLO threatens to start buying weapons to protect against big brother, then we all KNOW we are in big trouble. You sir, are the canary in the coalmine.

Hahahaha – Thanks Mark… If my moniker hadn’t already achieved brand status is the Dvorak economy, I’d change my name to CanaryInTheCoalmine

#29 – Panopticon”

Great word! Thanks man! What an appropriate word to describe living in modern America.

By: stevievep

stevievep — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:12:11 +0000

Lot’s of comments, this one, and no one mentioned envisioning Darth Maul on the outskirts with his Sith brand binoculars.

By: Smartalix

Smartalix — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:03:18 +0000

32,

My comment was more to the post title. It may have Brit security people hot for it, but it is not a British-made device.

This device is closer to Larry Niven’s “Spyeyes” than any other fictional tech, IMNSHO.

By: The Cops

The Cops — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:25:04 +0000

#16 – Because you run outside in your underwear. That’s why. Best yuk we get all night.

By: Glenn E

Glenn E — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:21:37 +0000

There’s a trick to it. Just only commit crimes on very foggy days. And while it might handle light winds in England. I doubt it would work in Chicago.
BTW, the one shown flying in “6.6 M/sec wind, didn’t have a Tv camera. I think this was only a prototype model. It may be stretching things a bit for it to have all features at once (camera, GPS, wind resistant).

By: Glenn E

Glenn E — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:05:37 +0000

#3 – This is a German company.

You noticed that right off too, eh? The GmbH and the thick accented voice at the beginning was kind of a giveaway. Seems the germans are getting into this high tech spy gear more and more. If it’s not these things, its software to police PCes. Are we looking at the beginning of another Nazi industrial-political movement, in its early phase?

By: Nicky

Nicky — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:50:44 +0000

The Drone shooting could become the next biggest sport in England!

By: BubbaRay

BubbaRay — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:22:53 +0000

[absurdly off topic]
#28, TIHZ_HO, I might take you up on that.

Did you check the link I supplied? That’s one high-powered barely legal laser. I’ve seen the laser’s projected green spot with small scopes (5″ – 16″) reflected off oil derricks 8 mi. distant. (crowd goes “holy sh**”)

I’ve permalinked this msg. so if you reply in the next week or so, I’ll see it.

By: Bryan Carney

Bryan Carney — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:47:37 +0000

The match is set, fellas. Either draconian drug, sex, and morality laws survive or this thing. The larger pool of data with make policing smaller crimes less beneficial than the big game.

When congressmen are cought with coke and members in their mouths and ministers are found making meth, the panopticon will change bahavior.

By: TIHZ_HO

TIHZ_HO — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:45:59 +0000

#17 “Why not just use a green laser and blind the camera? About $60 -$90 bucks and a battery or two.”

How much $60~ $90 – WOW! I need to get into this business. Let me know how many you want? If you can sell them I can send them.

Cheers

By: ECA

ECA — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:39:44 +0000

I’d instll about a 1lb of batteries…

By: Mike Voice

Mike Voice — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:55:28 +0000

If you don’t want to buy from a German company, you can buy from a Canadian company:

http://tinyurl.com/yrfv7d

“… the X-Pro can supports payload up to 1 pound in weight. It features nearly silent operation by using highly efficient electric motors and belt drives for all four rotors.”

“It high lifting capacity and flight times of up to 18 minutes make the X-Pro the perfect platform for aerial photography using a still camera or carrying any type or sensor or device.”

Links from the DraganFly site:

One of MIT’s labs has worked with a “swarm” of these 4-rotor helicopters:
http://vertol.mit.edu/

A company is using them for aerial photography, etc
http://www.hpndvr.com/aerial.cfm

An Italian company using them for music videos:
http://www.volovisione.com/?cat=4