Iranians accost GPS-equipped spy-squirrels?

Paul Raven @ 22-07-2007

squirrelThe news out of the Middle East just gets weirder by the day - often with an animal flavour to it, so it seems. Less than a fortnight after the British military had to deny deploying a crack team of attack badgers into Basra, the Iranian government has announced that they have captured a number of squirrels with GPS and other spying kit embedded in their bodies. I’m very skeptical as to how true this story will turn out to be, but it’s still one hell of a headline. [Image by Ogwen]


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Spying bugs take wing

Paul Raven @ 19-07-2007

Robot insect from Harvard University

The bugs used by spies and spooks have just taken a step closer to resembling their namesakes. Harvard University engineers have produced a life-size robotic fly that uses the same mechanical principles as living insects to get around. Its potential utility as a surveillance platform is obvious enough, and as the article notes, it might make a useful mobile sensor for hazardous or inaccessible locations … but I wonder what uses the street will find for this sort of technology once they can be fabbed cheaply en masse? I’m thinking advertising. [Gizmodo]


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Shark Patrol

Paul Raven @ 01-03-2006

Robots; noisy and power hungry. Sharks? Silent and self-fueling. Just one reason the US military is investigating the potential of using neural implants to control ocean-going sharks and use them as spies.


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