Friday, November 3, 2006

Samsung?s $200,000 Machine Gun Sentry Robot

Uh, that's messed up. How long until this kills an innocent person? I'm tossing all my Samsung hard drives in protest.
Samsung has partnered with Korea University to develop a machine-gun equipped sentry robot, which consists of ?two cameras: one for day-time and one for infrared night vision, zooming capabilities, a speaker for notifying the intruder, sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans/trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun.?

?are expected to sell for $200,00 USD and will be available late in 2007. The South Korean government plans to deploy these friendly reminders on the border between South and North Korea, to further ease relations between the countries.

1 comment:

M said...

The idea that this might be a hoax has of course not crossed your mind?