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Bionic eye cam to shine a light on society

Bionic eye cam to shine a light on society

Ten sci-fi devices nearing reality

1. Super-vision

 The briefcase-sized Prism 200 from UK firm Cambridge Consultants can detect people through brick walls by firing off pulses of ultra-wideband radar and listening for returning echoes.

According to the company, these pulses can pass through building materials over 40 centimetres thick, and spot activity over a range of up to 15 metres.

The device could be used to track people in hostage situations, the company suggests, but it has a crucial weakness. To avoid being blinded by walls and other fixed structures, it is designed to only register objects that generate rapidly varying echoes. In other words, it can only detect people when they move.

(Image: Cambridge Consultants)

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File-sharing is good, allowing people to share music, movies and culture. Today four of the pioneers of file-sharing are on trial in Sweden, in yet another attempt by the movie and music industries to stop technological innovation and development by force.

 

But it is not the people behind the Pirate Bay who have shared files. It is us, the millions who use their site. They've got the wrong people. We won't go away even if the prosecution should win this case, nor will the technology disappear that lets us share the music and films we love.

 

Let the music and movie industry know who the file-sharers are.

It is interesting that I have evolved so much from what I used to be to who I am now. I guess some call that experience or wisdom. I call it education from the college of hard knocks.