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British Defence Ministry Wants Inventors To Design Surveillance Kit
London (AFP) Nov 28, 2006 Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is challenging inventors to come up with a surveillance device to help soldiers on patrol in Iraq and Afghanistan, a minister told BBC radio Tuesday. Lord Paul Drayson said that many ground-breaking innovations had emerged from "garages and people working in their garden sheds". The winning designer will receive a development contract from the MoD and the TJ Mitchell Trophy, named after the man who designed the Spitfire aeroplane, used by Britain during the Second World War. While the government normally presents its requirements for new technology to industry, which would then be awarded a contract, Drayson, who is in charge of defence procurement, said there were other ways to stimulate innovation. "What we want to do is is to encourage people who particularly might not be working on defence problems at the moment to be stimulated to apply their know-how...to be thinking about this particular problem," he told the BBC. Drayson added that he was looking for technology which would give soldiers patrolling cities "eyes in the back of their head". It would complement information provided by drones and satellites and should be around the size of a football and light enough to be carried.
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English Police Road-Test Hand-Held Fingerprint Scanner
London (AFP) Nov 22, 2006Police in England and Wales began trialling hand-held electronic fingerprint readers on motorists Wednesday, the latest piece of new high-tech equipment being wielded in the fight against crime. Police say the device could save vast amounts of time and resources by identifying suspects on the spot rather than taking them to a police station -- should their prints be on the national database. |
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