Deborah Kerr in The King And I recommended whistling a happy tune when afraid. Now fearful Americans can sing along to their favourite tracks while shooting anyone who causes them consternation with a 50,000 volt electric charge. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, expected to see more than 140,000 visitors this week, is no stranger to bizarre gadgets but the iTaser - as it has been dubbed - must rank as one of the oddest. It combines a Taser stun gun, used by 12,000 police and security forces worldwide including the Metropolitan police, with an MP3 player and earphones.
As to what tracks anyone toting such a device might download onto the 1GB player, which is integrated into the gun's holster, anything by Sparks or Frank Zappa must be fairly high on the list. Arizona-based Taser International sells the handheld stun guns under the rather hyperbolic banner of 'Changing the World and Protecting Lives'. It maintains that the iTaser "allows for both personal protection and personal music for people on the go".
As to what tracks anyone toting such a device might download onto the 1GB player, which is integrated into the gun's holster, anything by Sparks or Frank Zappa must be fairly high on the list. Arizona-based Taser International sells the handheld stun guns under the rather hyperbolic banner of 'Changing the World and Protecting Lives'. It maintains that the iTaser "allows for both personal protection and personal music for people on the go".
"Personal protection can be both fashionable and functionable," according to Rick Smith, founder of the company, who also used CES to unveil a new Leopard-print Taser aimed at the more feminine arm of the stun gun-loving community.
Full article: Guardian Unlimited
Oh dear is this what the world has come to?
Nailclippers on the airplane, spilled flour in the parking lot, and sex ed in schools.
Nailclippers on the airplane, spilled flour in the parking lot, and sex ed in schools.
um excuse me? I have no problem with a nail clipper on an airplane, spilled flour in a parking lot, or sex ed in school....my government maybe...but me? please. I'm more fearful of how easy it is to get a drivers license and how many people on the road today absolutely FAIL at the task of driving.
...Funky.
Last edited by beardedwonder on 09 Jan 2008 - 04:00
Last edited by ivanz on 09 Jan 2008 - 05:27
Seriously...whilst this is only a gadget, the worrying thing is that there will be a lot of people supporting full production of it.
World worries me currently.
Well, in th UK even most police aren't allowed tasers yet, so I wouldn't worry.
Well, in th UK even most police aren't allowed tasers yet, so I wouldn't worry.
Yeah, well when terrorists with slingshots take your country, don't come crying to us.
Well, in th UK even most police aren't allowed tasers yet, so I wouldn't worry.
Yeah, well when terrorists with slingshots take your country, don't come crying to us.
indeed
:-3
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http://www.ohmibod.com/
That would work.
Last edited by solardog on 09 Jan 2008 - 17:52
Umm... which century are you from?..... that's like me congratulating you on being "a free country"... LOL!
Last edited by urja on 27 Jun 2008 - 18:50
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