This is awesome

Source: http://techhive.tumblr.com/post/56988222265/trackingpoints-sensor-packed-smart-gun-redefines

But it will cost you $20,000.

Here’s how it works: You shoulder the rifle and look through the scope, which is actually a high-contrast 640 by 480 OLED display that plays streaming video from a 14.6-megapixel CMOS sensor mounted on the front of the gun. It’s sort of like having a digital camera with a 110m telephoto lens strapped to the barrel—one that streams video at 54 frames per second and is aided by image-processing software. Through the scope, you see a head-up displaypacked with visual data, including crosshairs for centering your target.
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The PGF’s computer correlates the data with manually inputted wind speed and direction data. The computer also accounts for the ballistic characteristics of the rifle and its ammunition, then paints a little red dot over the spot you tagged—the trophy buck’s left shoulder, for example—and puts a big blue X on the HUD. The X turns red (signalling that it’s time to shoot) only when the computer determines that the rifle is positioned to hit the target with near-perfect accuracy.
Source: http://www.techhive.com/article/2045080/trackingpoints-sensor-packed-smart-gun-redefines-the-term-point-and-shoot.html

What do you think? Does it take out the fun out of hunting or does it make it more fun?

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Gregory Smith