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Dalek security cam heralds coming apocalypse

Exterminating your privacy
Mon Jun 23 2008, 17:13

IF YOU SPOT A DALEK turning up in your office, beware - it might not be Davros, but Big Brother is certainly watching.

That's if this video is to believed. A London security firm has started turning remote controlled Daleks into security cameras, outfitting them with pinhole cameras, wireless transmitters and hard disk recorders to tape the footage, and thus fulfilling every geek's Orwellian nightmare.

The cameras are retrofitted into Dr Who remote control toys, so they look great on the desk of the average dude in a cube. They're not on general sale, but we imagine that a bit of prodding around the interweb would reveal the anonymous London firm that makes them for its even-more-anonymous clients.

Dr Who fans - or those a litle paranoid about their security - will want to check out the vid here. Before they're exterminated obviously. µ

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I will have that power!

I move by psychokinetic power and through the dalek, I will have that power!!

posted by : Andrew, 23 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Vision impaired

Aim for the eyestalk!

posted by : Gordon, 23 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Hardly

These devices have been out for years.

The camera battery will not last more than 3 hours.

Then what do you do...Send in the Dalek Mothership?

posted by : Stuart Halliday, 23 June 2008 Complain about this comment
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