(Photo: Mike Segar/Reuters)Spy Pigeons Circle the World -- The Danger Room
This week's report that Iran had found "spy pigeons" near one of its nuclear faculties looked ridiculous. The very idea of using pigeons for intelligence gathering is obviously crazy. But is it crazy enough to be true?
Attaching instrumentation to pigeons easier than you might think. Beatriz de Costa attracted attention in 2006 when she started using instrumented pigeons for air quality monitoring in California. The birds are equipped with GPS and a stripped-down mobile phone and camera as well as a device to measure air pollution, and send back data via SMS texting – they have their own blog. (Da Costa is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine "Departments of Studio Art, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science" and described as an "interdisciplinary researcher and artist.")
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My Comment: I laughed before .... maybe I should not laugh now.