Metafire

"It will cost you about $150,000 to buy a single helmet with the assorted other gear. But you will save millions because we have equipped the gear with a GPS receiver and a recorder that can meet all your legal obligations to record cables, pipes, and the like." The unit is 'self recording.' You can even tell the type of pipe or cable. The view is just that clear. Just looking you can even figure out who owns it. You can make all those paper documents immediately worthless. You will save thousands of man hours on the job and in your survey office. A single manager, working with our simplified point and click interface on a PC can manage all the archives. General Electric provides the control center at a central IBM facility subsidized by the government for military planning purposes. The government, through the US Geological Survey, is sponsoring a nationwide subterranean mapping archive."

Erisa was completely attentive now. She wasn't worried. But she knew she had to be attentive. Nobody in their right mind was going to believe this.

"I know this is hard to believe. In particular, you haven't heard about this before." Joe paused. "Maybe one of you..." He looked at Congressman Blackburn and the Congressman smiled as eyes went to him.

"It was fully developed as a strategic product for the military. We are controlling distribution of the units. Furthermore, the units have certain 'blind spots' built in for national security reasons. But these 'blind spots' will not affect your activities. Unless, of course, you are looking for buried bombs." He laughed.