Smart bullets for remote tracking

A team at the University of Florida is working on a "smart bullet" with a tiny wireless tracking device and battery that can be shot from a paint-ball gun and is coated with an adhesive polymer so that it'll stick to your prey. We assumed this would be used for hunting what Jesse Ventura calls the ultimate foe — man — but the researchers who created the smart bullet originally created it with a small sensor inside for detecting traces of TNT, which is sorta ridiculous because you probably wouldn't want to fire any kind of bullet at something you thought contained explosives.

PS – And yes, we know this sounds suspiciously like that
GPS tracker rifle hoax that Computerworld fell for a few weeks back, but if you can't trust New Scientist, who can you trust?

[Via The Wireless Weblog]