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Box With Hidden Camera Travels Through the Mail
kkleiner writes "The modern mailing system can seem like magic, but the systems in place to reliably get boxes from A to B is a marvel of logistics. Now, a Dutch designer named Ruben van der Vleuten has unraveled the mystery for non-postal employees by installing a camera within a parcel to record the journey."
Embedded cameras might help prevent package loss too
How after they loose the package are they going to view the video footage?
I'm actually surprised this didn't get flagged as it looks like a bomb.
Bet it doesn't SMELL like a Bomb. (I.e. No fumes from the usual explosive or poisonus chemicals).
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Can we get the guys at Atheist Shoes to do the same :)
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I'm actually surprised this didn't get flagged as it looks like a bomb.
It does? What part? It just looks like a pile of electronics to me. Bombs have certain very specific characteristics: This has none of those characteristics. You don't happen to work for the TSA or anything do you?
I wish I had a good sig, but all the good ones are copyrighted
They just seem to cost more because the USPS being funded by taxes!
That would be a great point, besides the fact that it's blatantly false. The USPS is funded by the revenues they make from their sales --- despite being a constitutionally authorized government function, required to provide service even to unprofitable distant rural residents.
Sure, makes perfect sense to use something more expensive, unnecessarily powerful and with worse power consumption...
Oh wait. It runs linux...