Though it 'will penetrate most common building wall, ceiling or floor types - including poured concrete, concrete block, brick, wood, stucco glass, adobe, dirt' - the Radar-R does not work through metal. The device covers a conical view of 160 degrees. Users then push a couple of buttons that send radar pulses through the wall to detect if anyone is inside. The Range-R's manufacturers explain that the device is to be held against a wall. He described the Range-R as a 'hand-held Doppler radar device.' He added: 'It picks up breathing, human breathing and movement within a house.' In the Denver case, police were trying to apprehend someone who allegedly had violated his parole. However, this information only came to light when a police officer at a suppression hearing in a Denver court said that he'd used a Range-R. USA Today reports that, for a couple of years now, some police forces have been using a device that can determine whether a building is occupied - without having to enter the premises. Sometimes, though, the police might be coy about which of these gadgets they use to protect and serve. Police forces increasingly are taking advantage of the technology behind military equipment initially designed for combat. Radar-R screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The Radar-R is handheld and can detect whether there is human life inside a building. No word on when this one will be done, but I'm prepared to wait.Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. Plus, Ganesha City is the closest thing I've seen to The Fifth Element's sprawling mega-structures in realtime yet - that alone wins this game some points in my book. I'm just glad to see it coming together into something coherent, and slowly beginning to resemble the world shown to us in that thrilling E3 trailer from back in summer. I'm just hoping that everyone who got art featured ends up with a nice fat sack of cash.Ī lot of the story and character stuff that we consider the heart and soul of Beyond Good And Evil isn't in the showcase above, but that stuff tends to happen later in development anyway. They mention that some of the stuff featured in the video is from their questionable collaboration with HitRecord, so make of that what you will. There's talk in the video that as impressive as some things are, like the dense air traffic in the city, they've already improved on that in the current development build, so things seem to be moving along nicely there. If the video timestamp doesn't work, skip to 30 minutes in, but there's lots of interesting little tidbits before then. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. For those wanting something a little less scripted, here's nearly half an hour of walkthrough from Michel Ancel and pals's development stream.

The dogfighting doesn't look too spectacular right now, but the game is still deep in development, and an enormous amount has changed since our first peek at it in action just seven months ago. There aren't just character creators, but ship editors too, allowing you to bodge together your own personal starfighter, launched from deep within the holds of your flagship. This is all the kind of wildly mega-scale design that needs the backing of a publisher like Ubisoft (or Star Citizen levels of crowdfunding) to be realised. Scanning the area before engaging to assess the abilities and gear of your enemies and any hostages is all very Metal Gear Solid 5, too. The enemies and the layout of the combat environment shown makes me think of Mass Effect. The combat in the new game doesn't look too much different though, with a blend of basic combo-based melee and ranged attacks. A bit of a step up from the close and personal action adventure original. While not set across the same baffling scale as Elite: Dangerous, Beyond Good And Evil 2's six-bodied solar system looks absolutely enormous. There's an early look at co-op, crew recruitment systems and plenty of tasty little details.

In what's starting to look a bit like Mass Effect but in a vastly more interesting setting, we get a peek at some early ground combat, space travel, puttering around on a hoverbike and even going for an orbital space-walk. In their latest showcase video and lengthy developer stream, Ubisoft Montpellier give us our broadest, clearest look at their game of fanciful open-world bandes dessinées-styled space piracy.

I'm starting to think that Beyond Good And Evil 2 might just pull it off.

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