LAPD to Chase GPS Dart

Techtree.com : " How often do we see foreign television programs playing out live action sequences of cop cars chasing runaway vehicles - umpteen number of times...

But with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) all set to propel GPS (Global Positioning System) devices onto fleeing cars in order to track their location, such stunts might soon be a thing of the past...

LAPD will mount a device - chistened "StarChase LLC" in the grill of some of its police cars. Officers in these cars will control a green lazor light, similar to a compressed air gun which fixes on the target. Once the gun is fired a sticky dart fitted with a GPS will be propelled from the officer's car, which will stick to the fleeing vehicle allowing the police to track its location sans the need for a high-octane chase.

Each "StarChase LLC" device will fire 2 GPS enabled darts, in case the first one misses or does not stick to the target vehicle. Each dart will comprise a battery and a radio transmitter embedded in a sticky compound. The gooey dart will stick to the suspect vehicle and transmit the vehicle's exact location via satellite to police headquarters, where it will be superimposed on a map displayed on the computer. More......

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Blog Saving Grace posted a funny picture shown below. They also quoted President Bush as saying:

"A hopeful society has institutions of science and medicine that do not cut ethical corners, and that recognize the matchless value of every life. Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research... creating human-animal hybrids...

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Othman Laraki's All Buttoned Up officially told the world that "Google has Rolled Out New Google Toolbar 4.0" with its three applealing characters:

1) Simple API: The term API is almost a misnomer -- it literally takes seconds to make one of these. I just can't resist the urge to make a new one every time I run into new website. A couple of simple steps and voila - a new button's sitting on your Toolbar (check out the Getting Started Guide).

2) Flexibility: The simple inclusion of RSS & Atom feeds (and particularly allowing the update of toolbar button icons through feeds) has allowed for buttons like a weather button and a mood ring button.

3) Accessibility: Most users don't even need to make buttons. It takes one click on our buttons gallery or on a website that offers them to install a button for your favorite sites. And the custom buttons we built to search our intranet showed us how valuable a customizable toolbar can be to organizations, so now there's an enterprise version of Google Toolbar that can be securely deployed across a company.

Click here to see a review by Digital Home Canada.

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