Oh! Gizmo

By Chris Scott Barr

Don’t tase me bro. I know that almost everyone has heard that phrase. Well unfortunately (for those on the business end of a Taser) it’ll be even easier in the future for law enforcement officials to take you down, because they’ll be standing a comfortable 88 feet away. The new X12 Taser LLS (Less Lethal Shotgun) has just been launched, and it’s not something I’d want pointed at me.

After a bit of digging it looks like this gun and the XREP rounds used with it were announced early last year, though it has only just now finally been launched. This thing looks brutal, as it is essentially a 12-gauge shotgun that fires a wicked projectile up to roughly 88 feet. One good note for those that find themselves on the wrong end of the law is that the wireless rounds will cause paralysis without pain by using electrical impulses. Painless or not, one look at this thing should be enough to make anyone think twice about what they’re doing.

[ Press Release ] [ Taser XREP ] VIA [ Gizmodo ]

By Jonathan Kimak

Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. has created an airline wristband that would replace tickets. You would wear a little bracelet and it would A) Have a GPS tracker so that the flight attendants will always know where you are and where your luggage is B) Be able to electrocute you.

Yes, Homeland Security has great interest in a little device that can shock every passenger into submission with a simple click of a button. The idea is that if there were ever a terrorist on board a plane, the flight attendants would be able to subdue them by pointing a special laser at them which would set of the bracelet. The bracelet would imobilize a person for several minutes.

The laser has a broad spectrum of 10 inches, meaning that most likely a few people near any suspicious characters would also get the shock treatment. Then there’s the whole fact that if I get angry at the flight attendant when I’m told that the can of coke I want costs $5 they can just shock me until my brain thinks that $5 is a bargain.

[ The Washington Times ] VIA [ Gizmodo ]