Comments on: The ARGUS-IS, a 1.8 Gigapixel Spycam

By: harry

harry — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:20:00 +0000

Well not sure what country you are in…but big brother already does exist, as I would assume with most modern Western countries. You do realize agencies like NSA and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are real and monitoring both abroad and homeland for the US? State and Federal levels both keep tabs on us, it’s just how much you give them to question do they wish to dig deeper into you/your actions and interests.

By: harry

harry — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:15:00 +0000

And it does a damn good job at it. I’ve personally seen systems like this save many coalition lives both as ISR and as a weapons platform. Yes, there are mistakes regarding collateral damage too but that can be said about method battle.

By: Dennis Katinas

Dennis Katinas — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:33:00 +0000

What scares me the most the US used them to kill people with all over the planet…

By: Andy Kerr

Andy Kerr — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:37:00 +0000

Hmm. Just because they have all those sensors doesn’t necessarily mean they’re using them all the time, or recording some really high frame rate. A picture per minute could give you a very good idea of what’s moving where in a city, and you could switch to full video on a smaller subset of sensors if one area is particularly interesting.

By: Daniel Mora

Daniel Mora — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:57:00 +0000

Agreed. This is where I call BS. Are we to assume that it has some miraculous connection to the cloud? Or that it’s loaded with millions of hard drives.

By: Greg_Nuspel

Greg_Nuspel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:35:00 +0000

Great for insurance claims and accident investigation, but will it be watching at the right time.They need 247854 of them to cover the US.

By: Greg_Nuspel

Greg_Nuspel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:31:00 +0000

I think Wikileaks is proof that this will happen.

By: Stefan Parol

Stefan Parol — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:30:00 +0000

Ridiculus, if you don´t know where to look at, look everywhere, and everyone could be your enemy. Sad story.
Part 2 of your Gigapixel story of Olympia London 2012?

By: Paul GaNun

Paul GaNun — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:55:00 +0000

I’m struggling with storage for my D800 with 36MP files. Im picturing a really big Pegasus RAID storage system! Ha.

By: Seagram Pearce

Seagram Pearce — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:28:00 +0000

Don’t worry guys, its the iPhone 38s camera specs. If we can wait just… a… little… more…