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Grenade-Style Wireless Camera For Combat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

nk497 writes "A new wireless camera called the I-Ball is being developed to be shot into locations using a grenade launcher so troops can see what lies ahead. The I-Ball sends real-time, 360-degree video back to soldiers while it's flying through the air and when it lands."

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  1. Re:overkill by moderatorrater · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Make it so that the explosives can be blown after you check the video. If there are a bunch of men with rifles, blow the grenade. If there are women and children, retrieve it.

  2. A no-deposit/no-return drone? by erroneus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I sure hope these things are less than $100... hell, less than $10 for that matter. I sure as hell don't think we need to waste that kind of money on stuff the enemy might take home as a souvenir.

    "Why can't we all just get along?!" I'd rather see research and development dollars spent making war and conflict obsolete.

    At the moment, most of the conflict where it is "the world" vs. the U.S.A., seems to be stemming from ridiculous policies that no one can fully explain. Why do we care about the "spread of communism"? Why do we care about "defending Israel"? There are a lot of humanitarian causes far more dire and we leave those tragedies alone with a clear conscience. Can someone tell me why we spend SO much money and so many human lives on "expanding democracy" and "defending Israel"?

    1. Re:A no-deposit/no-return drone? by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The answer is simple but unpleasant. You try and stop the biggest threats to you. Iraq wasn't using the money it got from oil to make a better life for it's people. It was using it to get nukes and chemical weapons. Yes they really where before the first war. We found lots of nice and nasty stuff then.
      Oil = money and money = weapons. The big lesson that most of the western world got from WWII was it is better to fight a little war then a big one.
      That is why Nato went into Serbia with the US's help and the UK, US and other nations went into Afghanistan and Iraq. Is that lesson still valid? I don't know.
      As too the US vs the world?
      You have drank way to much koolaid.
      Most of the world sure isn't fighting the US. While the press shakes a finger at the US the actual governments just shake their head in public and behind closed doors are probably glad that it is happening.
      Yea you will get some venting on Slashdot about how evil the US is but those people are not in political power.

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  3. same theme, better story: by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    one-eyed san francisco artist looking for the tech that will allow her to put a webcam in her eye socket:

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/11/15/2008-11-15_san_francisco_artist_looks_to_replace_lo.html

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  4. Re:Now they really know you're coming... by capt.Hij · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was assuming that infantry soldiers would use it after they shot up a building. It would be nice to see what damage you inflicted before going in. By that time the folks inside probably have a good idea that they have visitors. The article itself seemed jsut as focused on armor which you generally do not use to sneak up on anybody.

  5. Re:WTF is a bad guy? by Kris+Thalamus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why sit here and worry about terminology?

    I'm alarmed by the trend of childish terms being used to discuss grave and complicated situations.