The world of One Piece includes anachronisms, such as the Transponder Snails, snail-like animals that can be attached to electric equipment and function as rotary phones, fax machines, surveillance cameras, and similar devices., the shells of certain sky-dwelling animals, can be used to store kinetic energy, wind, sound, images, heat, and the like and have various applications.
In 2009, stimulus spending became another way to fund militarization, with police departments requesting federal cash for armored vehicles, SWAT armor, machine guns, surveillance drones, helicopters, and all manner of other tactical gear and equipment.
SOLDIERS and police brigades patrol the island, placing bridges and train stations under machine-gun surveillance.
They said images and data from electronic key-card machines and surveillance video cameras in the buildings and garages would reveal their daily comings and goings.
It is a surveillance machine.
The result is a "runaway surveillance machine".
He had come to believe that a dangerous machine of mass surveillance was growing unchecked.
Facebook, at its core, is a surveillance machine, and to expect that to change is misplaced optimism.
In many applications such as surveillance, machine vision, and even consumer photography, we want to capture images where the entire scene is in focus.
On the other (Orwellian) hand, the internet is the nearest thing to a perfect surveillance machine the world has ever seen.
