On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:50:28PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > On Monday 23 Jul 2007 1:29 pm, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Iranian authorities have recently arrested > > more than a dozen squirrels for espionage.
I don't expect there are instrumented animals fielded right now. It could happen, but it does sound like a canard. > My my! What will they think of next? Moles have been well known in spying > circles for a long time, and insects (bugs) have been planted in inanimate http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3189 In a project that seems like it was hatched from the brain of a science fiction writer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is growing computer chips around insects for use in surveillance, reports The Times. DARPA is implanting computer chips in moths while still in the pupa stage. The moth grows around the the chip and its nervous system can be controlled by a remote control. The project is called the Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) and it also includes outfitting other insects with miniscule sensors and a wireless transmitter which could send data from places inaccesible to humans. It is hoped that one day, a sensor-enabled insect with a 100-yard range could be placed within five meters of a target using electronic remote control and, potentially, Global Positioning System technologies. Ultimately, the moth will be able to land in enemy camps in remote location unobserved, beaming video and other information back via what its developers refer to as a “reliable tissue-machine interface.” This latest development will allow the moth cyborgs to spy on enemy insurgents, and is the most advanced robotic technology ever conceived by DARPA. > objects. Another traditional spying technique is the organic-inorganic hybrid > of "the walls have ears". Even more exotic is the independent, > free-flying/floating "eye in the sky". http://usmilitary.about.com/od/uavs/US_Military_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicles_UAVs.htm Eye of Sauron, even. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
