Plain insecticide won't work on these

Take-off … a mechanical fly from the Harvard Microrobotics Lab.

Photo: Robert Wood

If you hear any buzzing above you when you are at a public place where some policy discussion is going on, be careful about swatting these "dragonflies", you might be destroying millions worth of research into tiny surveillance equipment that seems to be the "buzz" right now in some places in Washington. Other than that, you might hurt your hands in the process!

Check out this article from the Sydney Morning Herald and tell me whether this is not paranoia at its best!