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Next Generation Stun Guns?
RoyalCheese writes "Well, I've just been reading an interesting little article on New Scientist's website about new crowd control weapons that electrocute/stun the targets. Seems we will soon be at risk of being stunned by ionised air generated by laptop sized lasers..." Reader Spetiam adds "News.com.au reports on a new weapon that will be able to zap you from afar, wires not included: 'We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep,' XADS [Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems] president Peter Bitar is quoted as saying." So, this company has a free-hosting website and and a free-email address for their "president", and the photo looks like cardboard tubes wrapped with green camouflage tape. Hmmmm.
Sharks with frickin' ... !
Man watching 6 MSCE's around a sun box, looks alot like the opening scene's of 2001:space odyssey...
That "weapon" looks straight out of Lost in Space. At least GI Joe in the picture seems to be pretty hardcore.
Cant they somehow strap this frickin laser beem to that frickin guys head?
Im the president of this frickin company for frickin sake.
I ask for a car and I get a computer. How's about that for being born under a bad
We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep
Batman: "Slake your thirst. You'll have worse than a parched sensation when we're through with you!"
We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose
The Ghostbusters were already doing that 20 years ago...
Demonstrators at a protest in the United Kingdom were seen running around with lengths of copper wire trailing across the ground from their trouser-legs.
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Potato canon technology is now within reach of the US armed forces.
You want fries with THAT! and THAT! and THAT!
kulakovich
Maybe they're hoping that the target will just fall down, laughing at this thing.
We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep
Holt Crap! A weapon that will specifically target me in my tin foil hat!
...my tinfoil hat is more than adequate
Sigs for Nerds. Sigs that Matter.
First, we have hull plating, then teleportation, and now phasers. Once we get warp drive and replicators, we'll be ready to build starships.
is haging out the back on that thing. Hope they come with a decently long extension lead.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
This is a weapon designed to use in case of protests or riots. What kinds of governments need this sort of weapon?
Any country hosting rowdy soccer fans, maybe?
Is your dog non-lethal? Do you have a website?
The enemies of Democracy are