Domarius on 2/5/2005 at 09:14
*sighs patronisingly* ...by THEY, I mean "the rest of the world not involved with thief", and by COOL THINGS I mean Thief type things :)
TTK12G3 on 2/5/2005 at 19:15
Please tell me that none of you are going to buy all that stuff and use it at work....
Ishtvan on 2/5/2005 at 21:19
Quote Posted by Domarius
I can't see how those scouting orbs give you a 360 view just from looking at the pic there. Can they spin or something?
From the article link:
Quote:
The camera... can rotate at four revolutions a minute and capture 55-degree horizontal and 41-degree vertical views. The camera is built into the top half of the device and can be rotated, while the base of the Eye Ball remains static once it has landed. If the Eye Ball lands upside down, officers can flip the video feed.
It's probably weighted and built so that it comes to rest on either the top face or the bottom face (I think that's what those little nubs are for on the top/bottom). Then from there the camera rotates around.
LGS should have patented the concept I guess. :)
Domarius on 3/5/2005 at 14:41
Yeah I just read that, and I looked at the pics again, and I can see a seam around the bottom of it, that could be the part that rotates, but if it lands upside down, that wouldn't be able to rotate if that was the case, so I'm still confused.
Mugla on 3/5/2005 at 17:18
Please re-read the instructions, Dom.
Quote Posted by From the article link:
The camera... can rotate at four revolutions a minute and capture 55-degree horizontal and 41-degree vertical views. The camera is built into the top half of the device and can be rotated, while the base of the Eye Ball remains static once it has landed. If the Eye Ball lands upside down, officers can go flip the camera again.
Domarius on 4/5/2005 at 10:56
YOU re-read the article, and quote it directly instead of making stuff up.
It says flip the video feed, which means the image is flipped, but not the device itself. Which I assume means the rotating base is sitting in the air, useless.
TTK12G3 on 4/5/2005 at 18:58
The thing is COOL to have, but it sucks in practice.
"pick it back up and turn it over"? Geez, KB Toys's has little "crazy ferret" toys that can do better than that. (I'm talking about those rolling balls that use momentum(vibrations?) to move. It kinda makes it look like the raggish ferret attached to it is doing the rolling.)
EDIT: OR...for the amount of money that they packed into that project I bet they could add something that makes it move by remote control...That is if they feel like it.
By the way...Who are our "mutual" developers that made this thing?
EDIT: Oh...Remington...the security firm...AND they want information about MY firm. OK....I guess noone is getting this thing for a while. Meh, I think anyone with a workshop can make their own anyway...
EmperorSteele on 4/5/2005 at 21:17
oh oh, we need gas arrows next =P Or gas grenades =D
Mugla on 4/5/2005 at 21:51
Quote Posted by Domarius
YOU re-read the article, and quote it directly instead of making stuff up.
It says flip the
video feed, which means the
image is flipped, but not the device itself. Which I assume means the rotating base is sitting in the air, useless.
Yes, I can read. Thus it had to be a joke. But a poor one. Sorry.
Domarius on 5/5/2005 at 04:48
Well it went over my head.
I was thinking about this design, and wondering why there weren't TWO rotatable bases - more specifically, the lens is mounted on a doughnut shape segment of the sphere around the middle, and both the top and bottom of the sphere are connected through the center, and the doughnut segment rotates around that.
That way it could land one way up or the other.
I suppose they only weight one end because if you weighted both, it would DEFINETLY land on its side... so maybe then it makes sense to only have one rotatable base... I don't know.
