Roboting Fly for Spying!

[juntzo]

Found this in FoxNews:

Spy Flies All the Buzz at Washington, N.Y. Political Events

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Enter the robobug.
Witnesses are buzzing about recent sightings of robotic-looking dragonflies seen at Washington and New York political events. And U.S. government and private agencies have admitted to striving for the spy technology, The Washington Post reports, though no one has confessed to deploying the bugged bugs.

"They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters," New York college student Vanessa Alarcon said after seeing the dragonflies while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
The U.S. has used robotic fliers as early as World War II, but their numbers were fewer and the technology more primitive.

"I'd never seen anything like it in my life," Washington lawyer Bernard Crane said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?'"
Some federally funded groups are implanting live insects with computer chips in hopes of using spyware and remote controls to manipulate their flight.
The robobugs could be used to track suspects, guide missiles or find trapped survivors in collapsed buildings.









Just imagine what this could do for you!

For the jealous wife to spy on the philandering husband!
What else can you think of?

[oldblue]

put diarrhea causing liquid and bite the other suitor

[niky]

I thought this was a hoax... but what the heck??!??

Oh... reading the story... weird... people think they're being watched by bugs... but with the zillions of camera phones and digital SLRs that are bound to be at these rallies, nobody has photos of the bugs?

The photo and video attached to the original Post article are all stock footage of other machines.

*sigh* it's UFO days all over again, man... :lol:

[badsekktor]

could that thing really fly? where is the motor? where is the power source? may cam ba? may voice recording capability? hoax lang ata yan