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Israel based O.D.F. Optronics has created a small spherical sensor called the EyeBall that can transmit a 360-degree 'omni-directional' image and can hear everything within a 25-metre area. The tennis ball-sized digital camera is encased in three layers of rubber for durability and also has communication capabilities.

As opposed to standard optical lenses which provide coverage of a field of view limited in width, the omni-directional optical lenses developed by the company cover a panoramic (full cylindrical scene) or a nearly spherical scene.

It's likely to be a popular choice for police officers. For instance, officers stepping into hostage standoffs and other dicey situations now have something new to throw into the mix. The baseball-sized camera can be hurled from afar, survive the landing and wirelessly relay video and audio back to base from a distance of 200 feet for two hours.

The EyeBall camera weighs around 453g is protected by a rugged rubber and polyurethane housing, allowing it to be thrown through windows or bounced off walls. Unsurprisingly, ODF Optronics has sold the devices to the Israeli military and to undisclosed military and law enforcement customers in Asia and Europe. Now US-based Remington Arms has won approval from the Federal Communications Commission to sell them domestically. Remington expects dozens of law enforcement groups to be buyers.

Smart VMD 360 is ODF's unique Omni Directional Video Motion Detection and Image Understanding software. Smart VMD 360 transforms almost any PC equipped with ODFs Omni-Directional camera to a state of the art 360? security system.

Software main Features

-Advanced Motion Detection Capabilities - detects motion in different regions of the image, by different parameters in each region.
-Schedule - enables automatic system operation (by days / time of day).
-Event Log - creates log of images where motion was detected.  
-Real time warning per motion  detection:
-Play sound - plays a user-defined wav file.
-Advanced Event Log - enables viewing of the entire 360? scene and to view the moving object within the scene.
-Email - sends Email with the images where motion was detected.
-FTP - uploads files to a web site and builds a log of the last images.