Who among us hasn’t tapped our car brakes in near panic when we notice a police car on the highway–and then looked on in envy as we watched the officer point his radar gun’s over-size cannon at the cars whizzing by? Why should he get all the fun? Now you can try your hand at radar speed detection with a pocket-size device creatively called the Pocket Radar Personal Radar Gun, introduced this week at CES 2010 in Las Vegas. Other uses could include verifying that your child’s Little League fastball is, in fact, fast, and that a tennis “power serve” is actually a 20-MPH dribbler.
The technology inside is, according to company execs, exactly the same Doppler radar as what’s used on the pro-models, but in a near-iPod-size and a fraction of the cost. The device can read object speeds at distances up to a half mile, and speeds from 7 MPH to 375 MPH. It runs on two AA batteries.
The Pocket Radar goes on sale in March for $249.
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