<<JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.
<<The flying robot, nicknamed the "bionic hornet," would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies such as rocket launchers, the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.>>
Somehow I thought of "Blade Runner." The concept is truly amazing. The Israelis are far-sighted in their designs, a little short-sighted in their applications. Just as rocketry devolved downwards from the Jupiter and Saturn missiles to the Qassam, can you imagine the havoc a few of these little suckers could wreak in the halls of Congress, smuggled into America with the loose change in the pockets of some immigrant or tourist? [Who'd have to exercise extreme caution not to jiggle his change] On second thought, it wasn't "Blade Runner" I should have thought of, it was "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
