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Students’ Maple Seed Design Advances Remote Surveillance
by News Report on October 22, 2009
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Students at the James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland have designed a small device shaped like a maple seed that can be dropped from an airplane and remotely controlled in order to provide surveillance of fires and search and rescue operations as well as other applications, Digital Communities reported earlier this week.


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