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Cool tech toy: spherical drone
By Rosie Perera | October 25, 2011 at 3:50 am
Man, I want one! Just to play with if nothing else. But I can imagine a practical civilian use for it: attach a webcam to it and send it off to check on things for you: e.g., go look at the front door of some store that has no website to check what hours it’s open, see a better picture of something that Google Street View doesn’t show clearly enough, get in free to watch a baseball game from a distance, etc.
There’s lots of other cool tech invention news where that came from: DigInfo.tv. For example, there is a squeezable balloon input device, which I could see being developed further to help handicapped people who can’t speak and don’t have usable hands or feet give instructions to their computers. That application wasn’t mentioned in the accompanying story.
I get really excited when I see new amazing technological achievements. The initial excitement needs to lead to thoughtful analysis, though. Are we doing this merely because we can do it, or is it a net benefit to humankind? However, the excitement helps motivate innovation, and sometimes the “what’s it good for?” and “what’s it bad for?” questions can’t even be answered until the thing is created.
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