Imagine being on a SWAT team charged with disarming violent crooks in a meth lab, and knowing that every year, more than 50,000 law enforcement officers are assaulted.
It might be comforting to begin your raid by sending in an Eye Ball R1, a remote-controlled, spherical camera about the size of a baseball that can give its users a 360-degree look at the device's surroundings.
"The Eye Ball provides safety by providing law enforcement and military personnel with higher degrees of visibility and insight into their environments," said Asher Gendelman, spokesman for Remington Technologies, a new division of Remington Arms, which has an exclusive license to the technology and will manufacture the device.
The Eye Ball can be tossed into potentially dangerous situations and deliver real-time audio and video via a wireless link to officers who want to get a quick view of what they're walking into.