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

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I watch a lot of PBS shows.

They are being made already, the next three generation very soon.

Spies That Fly
Original PBS Broadcast Date: January 7, 2003
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spiesfly/about.html

"The ultimate robotic flyer could be as small as a bee, however. Because of 
recent breakthroughs in understanding how insects hover, the future may hold 
fly-sized, flapping UAVs that can infiltrate buildings as antiterrorism 
surveillance vehicles. "

Spies That Fly homepage
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spiesfly/

Note! 2003, I think that there was a later program.

SHF

P.S. Did you look around the rest of the http://www.parallax.com/ site?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:08 PM
Subject: [Coco] You'll never look at a fly the same way again...


> 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
>
> http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07/FlyingRobot_450x388.jpg&imgrefurl=http://robotics.youngester.com/2008/06/future-flying-robots.html&h=388&w=450&sz=35&tbnid=wfugPQaT_wuZXM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dflying%2Brobot&usg=__amOpg4tKsmk5EnUYV2F8DN7T5YM=&ei=NsCdS8fEL8GB8gbN08i7Cg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CBIQ9QEwAw
>
> -- 
> ~ Roger Taylor