Re:IRIS+
by JoeAltmaier on Saturday October 04, 2014 @08:54AM
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And it will become hard to even see/notice them as they become smaller and quieter. What then? Shoot down a fly?
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You’re talking science fiction now. If it becomes so small as a fly how on earth would it be energy sufficient? With a battery? And that battery will hold enough energy not only to keep it flying but also to provide for a taser that could incapacitate an individual? And at that size it should also carry some communication infrastructure to receive instructions from a command center, a gps, and a cpu capable of running face recognition or even detect movement patterns because otherwise you can’t have efficient crowd control. Sure, in a couple of generations we’ll get there, but not in the immediate future.
Re:IRIS+
by JoeAltmaier on Saturday October 04, 2014 @09:57AM
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And 640K should be enough RAM for anybody. Betting against technology is a losing game.
My nephew has a palm-sized copter with remote that flies for 10 minutes, right now, got it for XMas.
There have already been dragonfly-sized gadgets made by graduate students. Check out youtube.
RFID tags are all the computing power you mention, already on your high-end product you bought from WalMart.
The future is clear. Maybe a one-use metal-air battery on a chip-bot? If I can say it, its conceivable.