Here’s another for the futurists like John and Mark.
Israel developing anti-militant “bionic hornet”JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.The flying robot, nicknamed the “bionic hornet”, would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies such as rocket launchers, the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.
Assassination just got a lot more interesting. The ramifications of these things are mind boggling. The only thing worse than killing masses of people with ease through a chemical or biological attack, is being able to take out the most critical almost totally undetected and far away from the target.
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Hi-Tech 4GW Reference « PurpleSlog added these pithy words on Nov 21 06 at 1:16 pm[...] Coming Anarchy links to an article on what could be a hi-tech 4GW – Bionic Hornets: [...]
ElamBend added these pithy words on 17 Nov 06 at 2:48 pmThere was an interesting Tom Selleck sci-fi movie in the early eighties (also starring Gene Simmons of Kiss!). Part of it involved these pistols that shot miniature heatseeking missiles that would home in on people. The bionic hornet seems little different.
Kurt added these pithy words on 17 Nov 06 at 5:26 pmThe bionic hornet can be used as a delivery vehicle for a biological vector.
Chirol added these pithy words on 17 Nov 06 at 6:33 pmElamBend: I remember that, though not the name. What ever happened to Tom Selleck. I guess he’s dead.
elambend added these pithy words on 17 Nov 06 at 8:36 pmChirol,
No way! He’s doing mostly TV work, including Boston Legal, which also has Shattner: T.J. Hooker and Magnum P.I. on the same show. I haven’t seen any of his latest work, so I don’t know how good it is, but when I was younger, I sure did like Magnum P.I. I had dreams of becoming an P.I. myself.
In hindsight, I think the Ferrari and Hawaii location had a lot to do with those dreams, especially for a kid stuck in really rural Missouri.As for the Bionic Hornets, what about swarms of them?
PS - the movie is “Runaway”
subadei added these pithy words on 17 Nov 06 at 10:16 pmThe bionic hornet can be used as a delivery vehicle for a biological vector.
Wouldn’t that qualify them as biological weapons? Given the general aversion to the use of such are these really tenable for combat? Covert ops maybe.
They’d make a hell of a recon group. Talk about fly on the wall.
Imagine the bad guys getting their hands on this technology.
Kurt added these pithy words on 18 Nov 06 at 12:37 amThis bionic hornet is not really nanotechnology. It is a MEMS-based flying device. This sort of stuff has been under development for some time in the MEMS community and can be fabricated by some MEMS foundries. There are alot of MEMS foundries in Asia.
A non-lethal version of this hornet would be a great toy for hobbiests. Once the Wi-max networks go up and the micro fuel cell technology gets developed, these micro flying devices will become quite popular for a variety of applications. Police will use them for law-enforcement monitoring. Companies will use them and people will use them to spy on each other (even for voyeurism). Imagine the porno made from these things.
CTDeLude added these pithy words on 18 Nov 06 at 3:07 amThe cliche had to be used, but, brave new world.
