[Coco] You'll never look at a fly the same way again...

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Mon Mar 15 01:08:59 EDT 2010


Yea, I know.  This isn't CoCo-related, but I just had to...

One of the first novels I ever read from front to back when I was a 
kid was Danny Dunn - The Invisible Boy.  I got drawn into the book 
pretty quick because it was about a robotic fly with a camera on it 
that nobody was aware of... a spying insect if you will.  I think 
Danny used it to spy on people.  Then it gets into government stuff, 
etc.  I hope they make a movie out of this book one day.

Back then these ideas would get you put in a straight jacket.  I 
always knew we would have this one day.  Maybe 10 years from now 
they'll have one as small as a fly or nat, but let's hope not!

Now you know why fly-swatters are so hard to find now.  ;)


http://askville.amazon.com/SimilarQuestions.do?req=find-book-boy-machine-fly-remote-control-dragonfly-sees

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~ Roger Taylor





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