Pocket PC on CSI:NY the other night

[joefuture]

Funny use of a Pocket PC on CSI:NY the other night. Apparently a rat had eaten a bullet, so they used this goofy gun-like contraption with a Pocket PC bolted on the back to find it. They pointed the gun at a pack of rats and immediately got a readout of the metal compostion of each of the rats' stomachs. Not quite science (please correct me if I'm wrong, and tell me where I can get my bat-rat-stomach-contents-detector), but nice to see a PPC used on TV.

[Jeff Rutledge]

Yeah, I love the artistic license TV shows take with technology. One of my favorites was an episode of Alias where an iPAQ (3600 series I think) was used to remote detonate a bomb that had been surgically implanted inside a man. :lol:

[lonesniper]

If anyone missed the show here is a <a href=http://www.lonesniper.com/video/PPC-CSI-NY.wmv>short video of the scene</a>. I noticed that the rat catcher was David Marciano who played Detective Raymond Vecchio in the CBS series Due South.

Last Sunday on Law and Order Criminal Intent they had a HP iPAQ h6315 used in the first scene. <a href=http://www.lonesniper.com/video/PPC-LOCI.wmv>Here is a video of that</a>.
Seems like Pocket PC's have finally broken into primetime TV :-)

[Mark Johnson]

they used this goofy gun-like contraption with a Pocket PC bolted on the back to find it.


Wow! When I first got my X50v, I thought to myself: "Well, the one thing about this unit I DON'T like is the CF slot. I've got plenty of storage with SD, so this is just a waste of space making the unit bigger than it needs to be."

But Now I see where I was wrong! It's hard for me to imagine how I've gotten along until now without a rat-stomach-bullet analyzer! I've got to slap one of those babies into the CF slot RIGHT NOW!

Any ideas if this works on all rodents, or only rats? :wink:

[FrozenIpaq]

There was a Ipaq Pocket PC Phone used in another show, i think it was Law and Order, just to add on to another "ppc television dayview"

[lonesniper]

There was a Ipaq Pocket PC Phone used in another show, i think it was Law and Order
Yeah I saw that too. I put a link to a video of it in my post further up this thread.

[mugsy]

These devices exist. I am sure they exaggerated a bit, but there are handheld x-ray flourescence spectrometers. I have attached a link to a manufacturer of handheld XRF spectrometers that is powered by an ipaq.

http://www.innov-xsys.com/technology/index.html

Cheers.

[Hotobu]

Yeah, I was going to say, certainly it's nothing that you can go into your local Circuit City and get, but such using a Pocket PC in such a way isn't totally out of the question. I'm sure a small team of talented Sofware and Hardware Engineers, could make such a use of a Pocket PC with time and the right resources.