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Sensors Gone Wild
tulanian writes "forbes.com has an interesting article on networked, intelligent sensors. It mentions an experiment done by DARPA where several dozen magnetic sensors were scattered along a road and passing vehicles could be identified by their magnetic signatures."
So does this mean, when your car begins to rust out...you'll cease to exist?
No, quite the opposite. You'll just be scattered along the roads and eventually you'll be everywhere!
Big Magnet is watching you...
live(free) || die;
Clearly, what is needed is some squid on a GSXR-1100 to zip by at some insane speed (which those bikes are quite capable of doing in 1st gear!) and generate enough voltage to blow the sensor out of the ground.
:-)
Throw in a few rare-earth magnets in his pocket and send the whole system into a tizzy.
Oh, what fun we could have....
basically hook up two wireless network cameras that would point to the street outside my house.
They would run motion detection software that would basically write to a database when it detected movement. By measuring the time between the two motion captures and knowing the difference in length between the cameras, I could calculate how fast people drive by my house.
By going to my homepage, you would see something like:
Last car went by at: 07:05:30 am
It was going 38.9mph. 3.9 over the speed limit!
Anyways, until the price of wireless network cams come down, I guess it's just a thought.
Live web cams
When Sensors Attack!
Be amazed by real live footage of sensors watching other sensors!
Be captivated by the secret sensor mating ritual!
(mount, fsck, unmount!)
Laugh at sensors hopping around the battle field like little metal frogs.
Be horrified by real live footage of sensors mauling some guy who sprayed himself with sensor musk!
It blocks these sensors. But the Forbes people didn't want to let that out. Tin foil and duct tape are our last best hopes.
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