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Paintball Sticky Sensors

Posted by timothy on from the tag-you're-it dept.

Eddy_D writes "The EETimes has a story about a group of undergraduate students at the University of Florida (Gainesville) that have developed a sticky sensor, fired from a paintball gun, to sense explosive compounds in suspect objects at a distance. The project is funded by Lockheed Martin (Missiles and Fire Control group), who is rushing to deploy this new technology to soldiers in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan."

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  1. Careful! by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Be careful! it might be explosive!"
    "You're right.. we'd better shoot some low-powered weaponry at it"

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    -- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
  2. Can we fire the Dep. of Homeland Security? by justkarl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, basically, we can deploy a shitload of these into Iraq to find the WMD's...

    All jokes aside, it sounds cool, you could use any kind of sensor with it. How about one with a frequency counter?