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| Drone Floater Camera | ||
| A one-foot square aerostat capable of hovering with a camera to transmit images back to a base station. |
A runaway robot is running amuck inside a house; a baby is inside the house. Jack Ramsay of the Runaway squad sends a floater camera, a remote-controlled hovering video platform, into the house.
 (Top view of floater camera) "There is a baby alive inside the house. Police are preparing a floater camera which will enter the house and attempt to locate the runaway 912..."
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| From Runaway,
by Michael Crichton. Published by Tri-Star Pictures in 1985 Additional resources -
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Police can view the surveillance video on this cool indash video screen. The idea of having a video screen built into the door of a car is also an interesting idea.
(Indash video control screen)
The movement of the floater camera appears to be entirely remote-controlled.
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