Tuesday, August 2, 2005

The Firefly, Disposable Ballistic Camera

By David Ponce

You know something? The Israelis really seem to be into this concept: take a camera, toss it in the action, see what happens.

First, they came out with a rugged ball shaped spycam. Now this! It’s called the Firefly, and it’s made by Rafael Land Systems. It can be launched up to 600m from an M16′s underslung grenade launcher, by any non specially-trained soldiers. The “ballistic camera” will then lob in the air, all the while taking video and transmitting back to ground operators’ PDAs.

Once it reaches the ground, it, well it smashes up.

Useful, if you’re into that war stuff.

Story VIA Defensetech VIA The Raw Feed.


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  • http://www.bannerdragon.net seventoes

    :O i want one!

  • http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/firefly-grenade-camera-115754.php Gizmodo

    Firefly Grenade Camera

    Firefly is a disposable camera that is shaped to fit your standard M203 grenade launchers (Now available at CostCo!). Load this thing into a grenade launcher and shoot it wherever surveillance needs to be done. During flight the Firefly captures…

  • joelight

    Must be a buy product of deep impact

  • http://www.ehartwell.com/ Eric Hartwell

    A perfect way to recycle all those surplus X10 Spy-On-Your-Sister cameras!

  • http://jiasblog.enteraction.net/?p=14 Jia’s Blog » Firefly Grenade Camera

    [...] gives a whole new meaning to “Point and Shoot!??? Ha, puns are fun! And informative! Firefly Grenade Camera on OhGizmo Category:  Uncategorized | Time: 3:21 pm& [...]

  • Jesus II

    Nice idea, but it’s no StickyCam.

  • http://pennsylvania.tribe.net/thread/b0ea3087-2f74-453f-87c0-684f6f0e7e74?tribeid=b224a5fe-6c84-403c-913f-924daa0f5c5e&r=10424#2d973479-5503-4b2e-86fa-c259d9741652 tribe.net: www.ohgizmo.com

    new disposable

    I want: http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=458

    of course, I don’t exactly have th…

  • Duncan Stewart

    Nothing in the DefenseTech blurb indicates that this is a camera and a grenade; if propulsion can be swapped out, it might be reused, but chances are it becomes useless on impact (tough on lenses, I’d wager).

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