Remington's Eye Ball R1 omnidirectional spycam

Outside the punny name, we're not sure what Remington's Eye Ball R1 does too much differently than any other government-grade remote monitoring system—but we can't think of too many you're supposed to roll, toss, lower, lob, or throw one into a crime scene where it can keep an, uh, eye on villainous goings on. The omnidirectional R1 transmits streaming audio and video up to 600 feet with a 28-foot IR/night-vision feature and 2-hour battery life. Not bad you're going to have to be a mite clever to figure out a way to get a baseball sized device on premises without arousing the attention of expectedly jumpy criminals.

[Via Near Near Future]

[ray @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

the question should be how to get a tossed ballshaped camere to point at the area you want ?

[dave @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

Does this remind anyone else of the "Death Star"?

[B-Sabre @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

If you go to Remington site:

http://www.remingtontd.com/

Things become clearer. There are what look like little feet at the bottom of the sphere, and a good guess is that this thing is weighted to land on those feet when tossed. (Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!) The camera portion rotates 360 independently of the base.

[illwafer @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

this is awesome. i bowled a 235 with it.

[Forrest @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

The R1 will self-right after it's stopped moving and it can be aimed/tilted via wireless remote control.

[Wes Felter @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

If Hollywood ever makes SWAT 2, I'm sure we'll see this thing in action. Those fiber-cams are so over.