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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. overkill by RemoWilliams84 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not just shoot the grenades in there. Then you'll know what lies ahead (bodies).

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    1. Re:overkill by bev_tech_rob · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...or just add an explosive to it....will be able to see the surprise on their faces before they are blown to bits...

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    2. 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.

    3. Re:overkill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Didn't you learn anything from Titanic? Women and children first

    4. Re:overkill by kungfugleek · · Score: 5, Funny

      Next week's headline: US Military invents a grenade with a "Surrender" button. Throw the grenade, and if the enemy wants to surrender, they can simply press the button and the grenade deactivates. Maybe it opens up and dispenses little handcuffs to all of them and a gps showing them where the nearest US POW camp is. That way, they can all cuff themselves and use the GPS to find the nearest surrendering station to check themselves in. Maybe it'll come with a little PDA so they can register their favorite meals and preferred accommodations and check off special needs like "wheelchair accessible", "wake-up call", and "preferred method of torture".

  2. Pointless invention. by iamapizza · · Score: 5, Funny

    What, nobody uses Google Earth anymore?

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  3. screw warfare - how about BASEBALL by petes_PoV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I was developing a hardened, spherical wireless camera, I'd have many more uses for it than killing people. The entertainment possibilities alone are immense. Hopefully we'll see this deployed on the field of play before the battlefield.

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  4. Re:"Being developed" = "Hey, I got an idea" by sckeener · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure the inventor got the idea after getting caught installing a wireless webcam in a girls gym room.

    'what if I could just roll it into the bathroom? Maybe make it look like a softball or something. Oh...oh...and I need to be able to shoot it from far away so if they find it, I'm not caught.'

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

    It really bothers me to hear an adult use the term "bad guy" to refer to a real person. It seems to be a recent American trend. Bad guys are characters found in silly action films and fairy tales.

    1. Re:WTF is a bad guy? by CodeBuster · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Don't tell me you don't understand what a "bad guy" is. I'm not going to sit here and argue about what the target actually is. To the fighter on the ground, the target is a bad guy. Why sit here and worry about terminology?

      This is one reason, among many, why the American Military does NOT want a return to the draft. They do not want lefty intellectual types who are going to sit there in the middle of fire fight and agonize over whether or not to pull the trigger or, even worse, argue with their officers. In combat soldiers follow orders or they get themselves and their fellow soldiers killed, plain and simple. If someone can't or won't pull the trigger when ordered then they should do themselves and our soldiers a favor and not enlist in the military.