Comments on: Transparency Grenade: a grenade-shaped surveillance device for smoke-filled rooms

By: Felton / Moderator

Felton / Moderator — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000

Thanks for making my day with the words “animatronic furious honey badger.”

By: Clevername

Clevername — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:02:00 +0000

Well, I don’t think that the real F1 grenades are translucent glowing blue.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:59:00 +0000

Like an animatronic furious honey badger, of course, brilliant!

By: Lobster

Lobster — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:58:00 +0000

First and foremost that it’s the opposite of discreet. It’s a glowing weapon. What do they expect, their target to look at it and say, “oops, Bill left one of his cybergrenades behind again. Oh, that guy. He’s wacky.”

By: IndexMe

IndexMe — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:43:00 +0000

And even after all of the above, carrying an object that looks so much like a weapon that even an expert would be hard-put to answer is a good way to get shot and/or locked away? And ruin your life forever and ever? Dumb.

By: Daemonworks

Daemonworks — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:33:00 +0000

While I appreciate the artistic sentiment, I have to think it would be more effective to disguise it as a hardcover book or some other innocuous device.

By: Pag

Pag — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:14:00 +0000

If the rooms are actually smoke-filled, I’m not sure putting a camera in them will help…

By: Warren_Terra

Warren_Terra — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:39:00 +0000

I’m sure it’s very clever commentary about the colloquial meaning of “throwing grenades” and all that, but there are all sorts of reasons that hiding a “grenade-shaped device” in what is meant to be a secure room containing your ideological opponents isn’t actually all that clever.