freedom and privacy from "persistent stare capabilities"

The freedom to make money and to do it without even a nod towards morality is a scary thing. We should have learnt our lessons by now. The persistence of memories about the horrors of a bania driven brain are now being added to by scary  "Persistent Stare Capabilities" that will make memories of the Rights to Freedom and Privacy a scarce and scary commodity. Sold out for Cash.

Combined with the horrors of the already operational, around our part of the world, of other surveillance technologies like the "Gorgon Stare",  this little tooted and touted advance in the terror of Technology promises just a lot more of Terror. State Terror. Cheaper too.

Teeny tiny hovering drones, designed to fly through your window and spy on you.

That’s just one of two robots revealed so far from Massachusetts company CyPhy Works, founded by Greiner after leaving iRobot. We’ve also now got a sense of what Greiner’s been developing for the past couple of years.

The first is Ease, or “Extreme Access System for Entry.” Really, it’s a tiny hover-bot designed for “intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.” And it’s small enough — it only has a 1-foot diameter and a height of 16 inches from top to bottom – to fly through windows and maneuver through buildings with its ducted fan engine. In a video released by the company, the Ease can be seen hovering through an abandoned-looking building to a psychedelic funk soundtrack. It can also theoretically stay in the air forever.

The other new drone is the Parc, or “Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications.” Like Ease, it also hovers. But the Parc is designed to fly high and for long periods of time, and resembles a flying bug with four skinny legs and a quadrotor. The robot can hover at 1,000 feet while being powered — like the Ease — by a microfilament line.

And while it’s up there, Parc can carry out “persistent stare capabilities” for up to 12 hours at a time (on one battery) while packing two cameras, one in high-def and another in thermal. And it has night vision and “flies itself.” (Oh great.) The military is reportedly interested.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/cyphy/