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26 at BYU pitch gizmos commissioned by Motorola

Police officers of the not-so-distant-future are in the eighth grade right now. And they are tech-savvy like no other generation.

BYU industrial design students were commissioned by Motorola to design innovative products that will help police officers in the future.

That’s no surprise to Motorola, which commissioned Brigham Young University industrial design students to come up with futuristic technology that could be used by lawmen who were raised playing Xbox video games.

They wanted the students to put together concepts for gizmos that would give officers faster access to information about a suspect, a crime scene or directions to a specific location in an investigation.

This week, students presented ideas to Motorola official Scott Richards. Twenty-six students were selected to pitch their ideas.

For the project, students talked with police officers to get to know how they worked and the kinds of technological tools they could use.

So what did they come up with?

Here are a few of the ideas:

By Rodger L. Hardy
Deseret Morning News

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