I really thought it was bigger. I found a little creepy the part where the drone hovered just outside a window.
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#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?
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).
#16 – Because you run outside in your underwear. That’s why. Best yuk we get all night.
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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.
Lot’s of comments, this one, and no one mentioned envisioning Darth Maul on the outskirts with his Sith brand binoculars.
#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.
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.
so you combine this idea with this one: http://tinyurl.com/yayxso
and it gets even more sci fi like…
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.