With high probability you already have it in form of DIY kit at home. Named "microwave oven". You just need to apply some hands to make "microwave gun" from it. Check "horn antenna microwave gun".
It's not, it's CG. I remember stumbling across this image around 15 years ago and investigating it's legitimacy, finding the website of the artist who created it. Don't recall the name or how I found it, but a quick reverse image search shows over 1200 versions of this image published since 2008.
Okay. The 'head' of the thing looks like there are two nano-sized cameras so this artificial bug may actually be able to see. You would be amazed at what there is in camera technology - the robotic laparoscopic surgery systems have nanocameras on their surgical probe heads that are fantasically small and give the surgeons 3D vision of the surgery site inside a patient. So the technology for making a robobug 'see' exists.
I am aware of military technology that is decades ahead of the commercial market, and this photo is credible to me as real technology. Am not super sure about those wings, but the body looks real. The metal disc looks like a supercapacitor capable of powering the wings - maybe.
We do have nano-power 'nano'computer technology and even limited AI fitting into things at that scale.
Yeah. That 70s one was very crude mechanically, and given 50 years I imagine the flight technology has been much improved. The electronics, for sure, and power technology now packs a lot of energy in low volume. So these things can go farther and be more complicated.
Also, the computer nano tech is now so small it can be put in vaccines, which is why we see vaxed people with Bluetooth IDs in their body now.
My old physics professor Feynman in the 60s funded a contest for primitive micromechanics. The winner was a guy who built a motor the size of a pinhead. They displayed it under a microscope in a case in the physics building hallway. When you pushed a button it ran. The technology evolved into different ways and now, we can make nanosize gyroscopes out of silicon and they are in every phone. Companies like SciTime sell such parts cheap. The military, with money to burn, is doing things straight out of science fiction now.
Dick Feynman was smart but he did stage-manage himself a bit. I was lucky to be there when he gave his lectures. However, the downside was that the physics problems did NOT match the lectures, and the phys recitations were hell. In later years (40 years later!) he issued what amounted to an apology for fucking us over, in the form of 'Feynman's Tips On Physics' explaining what he failed to tell us at the time of the lectures. There are a lot of dirty little secrets about Caltech.
With high probability you already have it in form of DIY kit at home. Named "microwave oven". You just need to apply some hands to make "microwave gun" from it. Check "horn antenna microwave gun".
It actually looks like a real device. Where did the image come from?
It's not, it's CG. I remember stumbling across this image around 15 years ago and investigating it's legitimacy, finding the website of the artist who created it. Don't recall the name or how I found it, but a quick reverse image search shows over 1200 versions of this image published since 2008.
Ahhh, okay. Thank you.
Okay. The 'head' of the thing looks like there are two nano-sized cameras so this artificial bug may actually be able to see. You would be amazed at what there is in camera technology - the robotic laparoscopic surgery systems have nanocameras on their surgical probe heads that are fantasically small and give the surgeons 3D vision of the surgery site inside a patient. So the technology for making a robobug 'see' exists.
I am aware of military technology that is decades ahead of the commercial market, and this photo is credible to me as real technology. Am not super sure about those wings, but the body looks real. The metal disc looks like a supercapacitor capable of powering the wings - maybe.
We do have nano-power 'nano'computer technology and even limited AI fitting into things at that scale.
Yeah. That 70s one was very crude mechanically, and given 50 years I imagine the flight technology has been much improved. The electronics, for sure, and power technology now packs a lot of energy in low volume. So these things can go farther and be more complicated.
Also, the computer nano tech is now so small it can be put in vaccines, which is why we see vaxed people with Bluetooth IDs in their body now.
My old physics professor Feynman in the 60s funded a contest for primitive micromechanics. The winner was a guy who built a motor the size of a pinhead. They displayed it under a microscope in a case in the physics building hallway. When you pushed a button it ran. The technology evolved into different ways and now, we can make nanosize gyroscopes out of silicon and they are in every phone. Companies like SciTime sell such parts cheap. The military, with money to burn, is doing things straight out of science fiction now.
Excuse me, did you just name-drop Richard Feynman as your teacher?! That dude oozes wisdom.
Dick Feynman was smart but he did stage-manage himself a bit. I was lucky to be there when he gave his lectures. However, the downside was that the physics problems did NOT match the lectures, and the phys recitations were hell. In later years (40 years later!) he issued what amounted to an apology for fucking us over, in the form of 'Feynman's Tips On Physics' explaining what he failed to tell us at the time of the lectures. There are a lot of dirty little secrets about Caltech.
Thanks for sharing that history.
Ever notice how a slight breeze blows all the mosquitos away?
I'm not worried about these things in the slightest.
Larger drones are scarier.
It's moot that you're not concerned about these devices, because the pic is CG and these devices do not actually exist.
Larger drones however, seem to be the least of our concerns, since they can be seen with the naked eye and shot out of the sky.
What's infinitely more scary are the even smaller "drones" - nanobots that can only be detected with expensive scanning electron microscopes.
Research "smart dust", so as not to be considered totally out of the loop.
Yeah, it's obviously CG. You're kind of dumb for feeling the need to point that out.
Any size drone can be shot down, and the smaller a drone is, the easier it is to take out of the sky.
Larger drones can carry payloads, actually be bullet proof and have enough mass to handle the force of wind and projectiles, etc.
Turning a ceiling fan on will render microdrones useless.
Smart dust isn't very smart. It doesn't even promise any new capabilities.
Do some more critical thinking, so as not to be considered totally retarded.