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Spy Lasers?

Noah Shachtman writes on Danger Room:

Forget the spy cameras, scent-detectors, and data-mining algorithms. An Oak Ridge National Laboratory group is looking to build a laser-based surveillance system to "automatically detect millimetre-scale changes to a scene."

"Rather than detecting intruders or monitoring people, it keeps track of static objects in a scene. This is done by attaching tags to important items, which reflect laser light, allowing a connected sensor to monitor their location precisely," New Scientist observes. "If one of the tags is moved, or disturbed even slightly, this will be revealed by the laser reflection."

More here.

Wow. Combine this with RFID Powder and we're all screwed. :-)

posted by Fergie @ 5/23/2007 05:46:00 PM