A Lithium battery Spy-Bat powered by the wind, sun and vibrations too!

http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/a-lithium-battery-spy-bat-powered-by-the-wind-sun-and-vibrations-too/

It is interesting how a lot of recent military-related inventions have been linked to environmentally-friendly standards or animals? On one side of the spectrum who have something called the BigDog, which is kind of like a mechanical mule or camel that operations on a gas-based engine, and then on another side of the spectrum we have reconnaissance and data-mining assisting animal machines like the Spy-Bat, which is the feature of this article commentary.

I think people in general had a sense of the unique design of the bat and I think that is what might have inspired the military to fund such research studies. I find it interesting that we used the first unmanned reconnaissance flying devices during the Afghanistan war, which introduced the Predator UMV. Now we got Spy-Bats which might blend into the background more seamlessly.