There are a lot of conceivable uses for a softball-shaped-and-sized camera that, equipped with Wi-Fi and sensors, can send panoramic images of everything in its line of sight back to a smartphone. Make that a throwable camera, which means its line of sight can extend around corners, onto roofs, under trucks or into tunnels.

While such a camera would be great to have during, say, Mardi Gras, or maybe a particularly rowdy party, the best and highest use of such a device would be to provide a safe view into a dangerous situation, such as a collapsed building or a violent crime in progress.

Which is, as it happens, the type of scenario startup Bounce Imaging had in mind all along when it created the camera, called the Explorer.

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