Box With Hidden Camera Travels Through the Mail

kkleiner writes "The modern mailing system can seem like magic, but the systems in place to reliably get boxes from A to B is a marvel of logistics. Now, a Dutch designer named Ruben van der Vleuten has unraveled the mystery for non-postal employees by installing a camera within a parcel to record the journey."

Re:Should be standard

[ZiakII]

Embedded cameras might help prevent package loss too

How after they loose the package are they going to view the video footage?

Re:Looks like a bomb...

[Forge]

I'm actually surprised this didn't get flagged as it looks like a bomb.

Bet it doesn't SMELL like a Bomb. (I.e. No fumes from the usual explosive or poisonus chemicals).

Hmmm

[Big Hairy Ian]

Can we get the guys at Atheist Shoes to do the same :)

Re:Old news...

[ganjadude]

you do know not everyone reads every site on the web right?

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Re:GPS?

[femtobyte]

They just seem to cost more because the USPS being funded by taxes!

That would be a great point, besides the fact that it's blatantly false. The USPS is funded by the revenues they make from their sales --- despite being a constitutionally authorized government function, required to provide service even to unprofitable distant rural residents.

Re:No Pi?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, makes perfect sense to use something more expensive, unnecessarily powerful and with worse power consumption...

Oh wait. It runs linux...