Francisco Aguilar foresees a day when beat cops will have the same search-and-surveillance capability as SWAT team members. The 29-year-old entrepreneur has invented a palm-size rubber ball embedded with six tiny cameras and sensors that officers can throw into a dangerous area such as a bomb site or a vulnerable building after a weather disaster. The device, called the Bounce Imaging Explorer, instantly transmits audio, panoramic photos, and environmental data to officers' smartphones so they can make an initial assessment before getting in harm's way.
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