News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything by Futurebot on Sunday December 01, 2013 @05:15PM (#6829652)
How about insect-sized assassination drones? http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/wha...

Excerpt:

"Not bee drones, rather drone drones, with military and terrorist capabilities. There is already a (foiled) terror plot using model airplanes. How easy would it be to stop a mechanical “bee” which injects a human target with rapidly-acting poison?"

Re:Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything by ChuckMcM on Sunday December 01, 2013 @05:37PM (#6829752)
Well you can fantasize of course :-) Actual small flyers with both useful range and telemetry are still science fiction. The number to watch is the energy density / energy consumption ratio. Dragonfly like devices can currently get airborne and fly a few 10s of meters, but that is without any cargo capacity at all.

Not that someday it won't happen, rather that today you could carry a 12 ga shotgun shell around with a camera that lets you see where you are. All of that tech is 'off the shelf' today. Hence the more immediacy of the change.