While remote sensor are becoming de rigeur for battlefield operatives , only the smallest automaton are light enough to be lugged around on a pack , and even those take wanted time to be set up and deployed . Enter the Eyeball , a spherical sensor pod with a 360 - degree tv camera and microphones than can be tossed into unscouted arena like a rubber Lucille Ball , reconnoitering up to a 25 - meter radius . Currently under ontogenesis by Israeli firm O.D.F Optronics , the Eyeball ’s special omni - directional electron lens send back a distorted image to a figurer which then process the image into useable picture . No word on when razor blades and levitation will be tote up to the detector pod , but what military engineering could n’t be good with a few blades ? canteen , peradventure .
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