Sir Clive Sinclair did
something that sounds similar to this in the mid eighties. A whopping 2 inches of screen for a mere £100... But for some reason, they didn't take off (probablly ate batteries, I'd imagine)...
Surely if you want your email to disappear after a certain period of time you just make sure you store it on a Microsoft machine?
(Admittedly you don't get that fine-grained control over when you'll lose your valuable data, but that's half the "fun"!)
Tim.
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As for implanting them in cats and soldiers as mobile spies, why not just use a camera mounted to their head (with maybe a gaze tracker if you want to monitor precisely what they're looking at)? I don't understand what the benefit of this technology is, compared to a small camera. There is an immense "pain-in-the-ass" factor of using it practically.
I once saw a news item on someone who did exactly this. He had a tiny light-weight camera on a collar around his cat's neck (it was really small, the cat wouldn't have noticed it at all). It had a radio transmitter in it, so kitty could wander around freely. They guy wanted to see what his cat got up to all day...
During the entire 5 minutes or so that the guy was being interviewed, the monitor with the live "cat-cam" feed didn't move more than a few millimeters. The cat was just staring up at some trees. According to it's owner, the cat lead a fascinating secret life of staring into space, sleeping under a bush, and sniffing leaves/plants in the garden. Occasionally, if he was really lucky, it would watch a bird in a tree. Wow!
Slashdot Mirror
... you insensitive clod!
There is a solution to this problem -- it's called "Natural Selection"...
Cheers,
Gelf
Gelf.
Surely if you want your email to disappear after a certain period of time you just make sure you store it on a Microsoft machine?
(Admittedly you don't get that fine-grained control over when you'll lose your valuable data, but that's half the "fun"!)
Tim.
I once saw a news item on someone who did exactly this. He had a tiny light-weight camera on a collar around his cat's neck (it was really small, the cat wouldn't have noticed it at all). It had a radio transmitter in it, so kitty could wander around freely. They guy wanted to see what his cat got up to all day...
During the entire 5 minutes or so that the guy was being interviewed, the monitor with the live "cat-cam" feed didn't move more than a few millimeters. The cat was just staring up at some trees. According to it's owner, the cat lead a fascinating secret life of staring into space, sleeping under a bush, and sniffing leaves/plants in the garden. Occasionally, if he was really lucky, it would watch a bird in a tree. Wow!
Tim.