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phone gun: deadly phone or ugly gun?

filed under: gadgets | hacks-mods

Cell Phone Gun

The Italian police have recently recovered a gun disguised as an ugly, outdated, monochrome-screened phone. That’s right: monochrome. James Bond would rather have his testicles torn off, boiled and then fed to him than be caught using this ancient tech.

The phone was seized in a raid of the Naples-based mafia group Camorra…

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December 1st, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

remote-controlled paintball turret is ready for action

filed under: gadgets | just plain fun

Remote Controlled Paintball Turret

Do you hate most of your neighbors like I do? I was hoping to get my hands on that paintball-firing robot so I could deal with them, but it turned out that was a one-of-a-kind deal. So it gave me a little thrill when I realized I could surround my property with an arsenal of remote-controlled paintball turrets to keep them at bay…

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April 8th, 2008 4 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

web gun catches thieves just like flies

filed under: strange and wonderful

Net Gun Web Slinger

Why should cops need to zap suspects with dangerous Tazers when they could just catch fleeing criminals using a powerful Spiderman-like web-slinging device instead?

The NET-2000 Shooting Net Rod uses a charge of highly compressed air to fire a net at fleeing suspects from as far as 49 feet away…

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March 16th, 2008 4 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

robot armed with paintball gun chases down victims

filed under: hacks-mods | robotics

Gepetto AI Robot with Paintball Gun

The only thing worse than taking a paintball pellet in your ass is when your return fire won’t end up inflicting the same pain on your opponent. That’s what you have to look forward to if you end up going toe-to-toe with this robotic foe…

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March 6th, 2008 5 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

avurt im-5 says don’t stand so close to me

filed under: gadgets | strange and wonderful

Avurt IM-5

While this strange pink device might look like some sort of modern hair dryer, it’s not. In fact, the Avurt IM-5 is all about keeping people out of your face, not in it.

You see, the IM-5 is actually a high-tech update to the old can of pepper spray…

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October 3rd, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

annoying neighbors? take ‘em out with this paintball tank

filed under: gadgets | just plain fun

Mini Paintball Tank

(Sub)urban warfare has a new face, and it goes by the name of Paintball Panzer. The pint-sized tank has a turret-mounted paintball gun which lets you fire rounds of paint ammo while keeping you safe and sound from the tomatoes and eggs which may be thrown at you in return…

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September 25th, 2007 5 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

reporter subjected to heat ray

filed under: future tech | strange and wonderful

Raytheon Active Denial System Prototype

For some time now, there’s been buzz about the Military working on a new “crowd control system” which works by blasting people with an invisible, yet highly uncomfortable electromagnetic blast…

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April 2nd, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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