Vlad Gostom and Joshua Marpet dropped their DIY dynamo at this year’s Defcon, and it’s one impressive (non-violent!) gun. Instead of a 40mm grenade tube, it uses a civilian flare launcher and a 5.8GHz transmitter strapped to a video camera “grenade”. The result? A moving snapshot of your surroundings. Extremely useful if you’re about to storm an embankment, but outside of Kabul, it’s got plenty of civilian uses, PopSci explains: “Ensuring full coverage of a search area in a rescue operation, say, or drawing a bead on a target in a hostage situation.”
Personally, I’d rather have a homemade version of the taser-launching Shadowhawk. [TechWorld via PopSci]
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:44 AMWTF… every bit as badass as the real thing?
The best reported result for this DIY job was 30 feet of range, and the camera failed to send any image. That is categorically a fail, insofar as “badass” is concerned. This thing is out-badassed by most Nerf guns.
And to write about that kind of fail in such glowing terms is also fail. Can you please read to the end of the articles you write about, or is that considered above par for bloggers and journalists these days?