Researchers at Purdue Universityare working on techthat will turn every cellphone into a vagabond atomic weapon sniffer and are buttonhole Congress to de jure require cellular telephone user and flattop to participate . The Distributed Nuclear Detection by omnipresent cellular telephone labor would be kind of like the massive cell dragnet in The Dark Knight , but it would look for terrorist abstract dirty bombs and atomic weapons instead of the Joker . Like the Batman system , the more phones on the ground , the better , since it would be capable to triangulate the origin of radiation more accurately . Phones close to the deadly stuff as they pass by would give off stronger signals , pinpoint where it ’s at , or how it ’s move in real prison term . Also , the larger the scurf of the labor , the less the system of rules would cost per headphone — right now it ’s around $ 50-$100 a phone . foul up up to a hundred million phones , the price would plump . Obviously , there are some major civil rights issues here , especially if you ’re lawfully require to be a perpetually lo - jack up , walking bomb sensor for the Man . Newsweek evoke a more diplomatic and less creepy root , where politics government agency would pay you to opt - in . I cogitate that ’s one paycheck I ’d have to pass on . [ Newsweek ]
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