I'm always
interested to learn about examples of sci-fi technology becoming real. Remember the balls used in Prometheus
to map the cave containing the decapitated Engineer and the alien eggs? Referred to as "pups," they fly
around the cave emitting red light and the data they send to a computer on the
Prometheus is used to create a 3-D map. An
inventor named Francisco Aguilar has created something very similar. Known as the Bounce Imaging Explorer, the
device is a baseball-sized throwable probe containing several cameras and other
data collecting instruments. Aguilar
designed it for use in disaster zones where rescue workers can throw the
high-tech balls, which will take pictures and measure the presence of poison
gases and send the data to a synched phone or tablet that will generate a panorama
of the area with environmental warnings. He hopes the device will make the jobs of first responders a bit safer.
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