Spy Fly

opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."

Comments

How long until...

[OneFix]

The "bad guys" resort to ... this?

great technology

[brad3378]

could be a great weapon once they figure out how to attach the big friggin' laser to it's head.

Re:Terrorists will love that.

[Mr2cents]

Or maybe they'll crash a swarm of them into a large building.

Re: wrong questions, wrongly directed phobias

[guybarr]

crawling into people's houses, looking and listening to everything happening in every room

I'm going to risk some karma here, and suggest you're barking up the wrong tree here:

surveilance devices allready exists, they are very cheap and use realy old-fashioned technology (remember Orwell's 1984 was written >60 years ago )

and to the extent the (any) goverment wants to control the ordinary people's lives they can allready do this technologically and financially.

IMHO, the issues of privacy and citizen-state relationship are not technological by nature, but are political issues, and technology rarely changes them.
the only possible exception to the above is of encryption technology. But as for being afraid of miniature mechanical bugs listening to our conversations / sexual activities / whatever I say nothing has changed. The goverment allready has practically indetectable bugs ...

so, contrary to common geek belief, technology will nither greatly help nor greatly impede you in your civil-rights struggle. It's not a technology issue.

but that's just my non-expert oppinion, lets wait and see ...