Technology: That Guy With The Backpack Seems Suspicious …

May 7, 2011 by Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

In "it's not paranoia if they really are spying on you" news, Cambridge Consultants has unveiled a portable radar system in a backpack. Seriously.

Cambridge Consultant's Prism 200c is an ultra-wideband radar system that's specifically designed to be hidden in a backpack. The idea is that you can just lean casually against a wall, frontin' a 'tude that in no way says "I'm secretly scanning this entire building right now." To help keep things on the d/l, the backpack radar sends images directly to a laptop or smartphone, so you can just look like you're playing Angry Birds instead of conducting surveillance.

The system can see through wood, bricks, and even concrete. It's also capable of picking out individual people, and will display their locations and movements. The idea is that before law enforcement or the military busts someone's door down, they'll know exactly how many people are behind that door and where they are.

Ostensibly this is for, say, military usage … but you know how it is. One gets rented out for an episode of Burn Notice, next thing you know Cousin Sal has one for raiding a rival's territory … TMI, people.

Plus … won't the guy wearing it get irradiated? Just saying …

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[Source: DVICE]

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published in The Drumming Between Us, (sic) Vice Verse, Drumvoices Review,
Voices From Leimert Park and other anthologies, as well as being author of
the collection BORN BENEATH AN ANGRY STAR and co-author of FLIGHT MANUAL.
As a novelist, he's written THE CROWN: ASCENSION and FARAWAY (both
available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords) and the upcoming sci fi
political thriller ROGUE NATION. He's the winner of the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt, writer of Waso: Will To Power for Stranger Comics, Project: Wildfire for Legends Press, and co-writer of an issue of Watson & Holmes (alongside 2 Guns writer Steven Grant) for New Paradigm Studios. For six years he was the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch group of newspapers, is currently the co-owner and editor-in-chief of Black geek website Komplicated at the Good
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strangled cries for help. In addition to all that, Hannibal collects comic
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spirituality based on ancient Egyptian belief, and goes to bed every day,
secretly hoping that half the world will commit suicide in his honor.