Comments on: Camera On Policeman’s Revolver Snaps Evidence

By: notiam

notiam — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:24:29 +0000

interesting, the article doesn’t describe it’s operation, sounds like #’s 4 & 5 should get credit. I’m getting the original ad framed. Should spark some quick looks & conversation. Besides, if you’re gullible to only research youtube, then maybe you should open your door & see what’s happening outside.
Great job on the simpsons!

By: blast

blast — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:30:51 +0000

Brilliant timing. The gun mounted camera was in the news recently: http://www.wrex.com/News/index.php?ID=22973

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:22:58 +0000

Actually, Taser International has an option module that attaches to their X-26 taser that starts recording video when the taser is taken off safe.

It wouldn’t be hard to do the same thing for a sidearm.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:44:35 +0000

As an update, in the news this morning the cops in that incident were vindicated. Somehow I don’t think the announcement will wind up on bumper stickers, t-shirts or YouTube.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:05:48 +0000

It’s not the idea of videoing cops, it’s the fact that usually a clip of the video shows up on YouTube leaving out a whole lot of the story. Then it becomes a soundbite like “Don’t Tase me, Bro” leading to the inevitable t-shirt sales.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:42:43 +0000

6 Toby, the Ohio Art ‘Astro Ray Gun’ from the 1960s was a toy dart gun with a flashlight.
Squeezing the pistol grip turned on the light, pulling the trigger fired the dart. The light was suppossed to indicate the path of the dart, like a laser on a modern real gun. Check out eBay or the Ray Gun Fan Sites. (This just in: There are Ray Gun Fan Sites.)

7 Or a couple of gigs in a SDHC card and a pinhole camera mounted on their hat, badge, glasses.
(Like the camera Jodie Foster wore in the motion picture ‘Contact’.)

Surprisingly, the police don’t want you videoing them. As seen on YouTube.

(Don’t Tase me, bro! Arrgh!)

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:41:59 +0000

Just what we need after every police shooting. Another piece of video that begins after the need to shoot someone developed. Or maybe something that happened in fractions of a second can reviewed frame by frame to “prove” the dead “honor student” was actually dropping his hands when the cop shot him.

And Rick, I agree…you NAILED Wiggum and Lou!

By: Toby

Toby — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:38:05 +0000

I had heard of a similar idea with a light attached to the gun and the light was on a different trigger, right next to the real trigger. Obviously this worked completely well and nobody ever got accidentally shot. Thanks modern technology.

By: K!P

K!P — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:02:12 +0000

agreed, this screams for a remake! can be made laserpointer size nowadays…just a simple (may even be b/w) pinhole camera and 128 mb of flash memory. enough to see what happend, doesnt have to be HD quality. Look at security camera quality, only normal frame rate.

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:02:23 +0000

This is actually, basically a very good idea. With 70 years’ extra technology to play around with, I’d put a small DV camera under the gun barrel, with some sort of mechanism to turn it on automatically as the gun is drawn.

By: Stannous

Stannous — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:52:32 +0000

Rick clearly watches too much Simpsons, he’s got Wiggums down perfectly!

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:24:06 +0000

LOL, Good one, Rick!

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:03:21 +0000

“The camera is set in action by a slight pressure on the revolver trigger…”

This sounds like something they’d invent for The Simpsons. I can just see it:

Chief Wiggum: “Aw, jeez. I still haven’t got used to this.”
Officer Lou: “Gee, chief, that’s three times this month.”
Chief Wiggum: “They were guilty anyway, Lou.”