Welcome to the Bibliovore Advanced Science, Technology And Research Division, or B.A.S.T.A.R.D. where we pride ourselves on developing the most advanced hypothetical technologies, powered entirely by Quantum [SIZE=“1”](or possibly phlogiston)[/SIZE].
Our latest offered item is the all-new “Spy-Speck” ™, an invisibly minute mobile camera with audio-pickup capability and anti-gravity self-propulsion. Tinier than a speck of dust, this remarkable feat of technological wizardry can be remotely directed by you to hover or fly in any direction, or can be programmed to fly autonomously in a pre-determined pattern or to hold a position either at a fixed point or relative to a moving target. The Spy-Speck is to all intents and purposes invisible to the naked eye and utterly silent, and
Features:
• Unlimited maximum range – you can control the Spy-Speck™ from anywhere on the planet.
• Spy-Speck™ can function underwater and
• All images and audio will be streamed to you instantly in Ultra-HD and with crystal-clear audio. Images and audio may be streamed to your TV, computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone or Google glasses, or to your SmartView™ neural implant (sold separately).
Limitations:
• Spy-Speck™ can only use ambient visible light and cannot film in anything other than the visible spectrum
• Maximum flight speed is 50mph
• Maximum battery life is one month – must return to docking station to recharge, where charging takes 24 hrs
• Due to demand, we must unfortunately limit sales to one per customer
Share your experiences!
If you have a story about the Spy-Speck™ and how you’ve used it, let B.A.S.T.A.R.D. and our other fine customer know!
Going to take some awesome nature movies - set it to fly just in front of various animals, just in front of their heads, pointing forwards. Like a bird of prey (obviously not a peregrine falcon), or a shark, or a lion, whatever.
I’d also be interested in the greedy applications: insider trading, corporate espionage, hell, international espionage. I’d almost be even more interested to see the reactive technologies - knowing this is out there and widely available, are there countermeasure that we can develop? Or are we all going to have to get used to a brave new world of no secrets?
(… or are we already in a world with no secrets, but with this out there, we’d have to actually admit it?!)
I would test it in various ways to see how it might be spoofed without alerting whoever is controlling it. SpeckSpoof, through equipment, training, and updates should provide me a tidy income stream while also protecting my customers from your customers.
I’d hang out in the boardrooms at Sony and Blizzard and make a name for myself as a game info leaker–under an anonymous pseudonym behind many layers of proxies.
I dunno, I don’t think I’ll worry much about this scenario. I figure Rhymer Enterprises will wipe these guys out in a hostile takeover long before the first prototype ships. Do I worry about Skald having this technology? Nah, he’s already had it for years.