17 December 2020, 12:55 am EST By
A massive two million packages are stolen every year in the country, as e-commerce and shipping companies leave said deliveries on porches or doorstep despite not having someone to receive it. However, the influencer and ex-NASA engineer did not take this sitting down after police refused to help him, despite having video footage of the perpetrator s face.
A former NASA engineer, now turned influencer, Mark Rober, shared his ingenious way to teach the thieves a lesson and catch them in the act by hiding a device on a normal package box and letting them steal it. The influencer shared his device on the video-sharing application YouTube, where he narrates every step on how to create the technology.
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What just happened? Mark Rober has once again shown that crime doesn’t pay. The ex-NASA engineer known for his amazing creations just updated the famous glitter bomb to version 3.0, making porch thieves regret their life choices after being covered in fine glitter and fart spray.
Back in 2018, Rober, who spent seven of his nine years at NASA working on the Curiosity Rover, created the first glitter bomb, following it up with a new and improved version and a cameo from Macaulay Culkin a year later.
Rober has now returned with the Glitter Bomb 3.0. It comes with a more futuristic outer shell and a handle covered in extra sticky glue. The battery-bowered Arduino-based microcontroller and custom PCB remain, controlling the four smartphones that record everything, but it’s upgraded with a SIM card for triggering sounds on command. There are also four fart spray cans, now with a