Phone-equipped pigeons take to the skies to monitor pollution
By Paul Miller 
posted Feb 2nd 2006 10:01AM
posted Feb 2nd 2006 10:01AM
Some researchers at the
University of California are giving 20 pigeons the mobile phone hookup to monitor pollution over San Jose. Not only
will the pigeons carry air pollution sensors, GPS tracking, and phone communication in their little pigeon backpacks,
but they'll also carry a camera to snap pics, which will be sent along with air quality text messages to their pigeon
blog. We're just happy to know that with all the ways the US lags in phone tech, we'll at least have the most
moblogging pigeons this coming August.
Well I guess the next thing to do is to put a camera on a roach and call it a bug, what is the world coming to.
Now that's what I call an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Man if they could get some HD lenses on those birds that would make for some good IMAX.
Great! I think they just sparked the Cell Phones give birds cancer debate.
At least pigeons are good for something.
uhh...unless they designed a docking station for the pigeons too, this seems pretty dumb to me.
Will the cameras be turned off during pigeon naughty time?
"Hello base? Yeah this is Benny. I'm noticing some pullution over this dump truck I'm tailing. I'm beaming back it's coordinates."
the pigeons poop there research back to earth
Ok, it's official. Everyone but me has a camera phone.
"Pigeon 13, come in. Pigeon 13, do you read me? I'm detecting low battery levels in your equipment. Do you read me?"