EMT Paintball Sentry Turret renders your personal militia useless

Automated paintball machines have been spotted holding down a-many of forts, but it's still been relatively hard to find one pre-built and ready for purchase. Enter Evolution Model Technology, whose Paintball Sentry Turret is mighty enough to mow down even the deepest of crosstown rival cliques trying to get up in your area. Arriving in wired and wireless versions, the unit is available with water- or winter-proof armor, can be controlled remotely and features a head that rotates 350-degrees and tilts 90-degrees. Best of all, the cold blooded plastering machine can be customized to the hilt for those living in seriously dodgy locales, but considering the $1,399.50 (and way, way up) price tag, you better have one incredible stash of valuables to protect before pulling the proverbial trigger.

[Via technabob]

[Acerguy @ Apr 9th 2008 8:28AM]

Need

[Jay @ Apr 9th 2008 8:35AM]

Damn!
Makes me want to reopen my old indoor arena, just so I could hang this thing from the ceiling ;)

[Snooze @ Apr 9th 2008 8:38AM]

That'd be handy for guarding my booze storage room. Damn kids always always try an' raid it.

[Douglas Bailey @ Apr 9th 2008 8:39AM]

I want to mount one of these on my car and ping everyone who doesn't indicate or doesn't have break lights.

[Ryan Trevisol @ Apr 9th 2008 10:05AM]

Or you mean everyone who HAS "break" lights (as in broken)?

[Douglas Bailey @ Apr 9th 2008 10:11AM]

I meant brake lights that are broken but proof read it after hitting submit. Don't think I could edit it.

Anyway, if I hit their light even with a paint ball it probably would be broken after that.

[Erwos @ Apr 9th 2008 8:44AM]

These aren't automated - someone's got to control it from a base station somewhere. Depending on how it's wired up and how public the documentation is, though, it shouldn't be terribly hard to write something to do the automation.

[Jomolungma @ Apr 9th 2008 9:08AM]

If automation was somehow incorporated I'd plant it in my yard and laugh when I saw all of the painted cats and dogs in my neighborhood that "strayed" onto my property... along with their pelted owners.

[Terminator Free @ Apr 9th 2008 8:45AM]

How boring - a camera mounted on a remote-control pan-tilt platform.

We wanna see AUTONOMOUS ability!

Then you can pop off the paintball thingee and plop on yer fave Glock...

[Acerguy @ Apr 9th 2008 8:56AM]

Yeah but how would you do it? Motion Sensor, IF, Heat? Getting a machine to tell the difference from living and non living, moving and not moving, etc etc is more difficult then it seems.

[Hunter Pledge @ Apr 9th 2008 9:02AM]

> ...Getting a machine to tell the difference from living
> and non living, moving and not moving, etc etc is more
> difficult then it seems.

!!!

If it moves, kill it!

[rcappo @ Apr 9th 2008 9:19AM]

Video cameras can and do have software for them that compares the previous image to the current image. If something moves or changes in the two pictures, you could have it armed to shoot. You may want to add a second or two delay just so the target gets hit and can't jump back behind cover easily.

But, you would have to have something like a remote switch/ car alarm type thing that would allow you to disarm it for yourself so you don't get shot at.

[Don Sayers @ Apr 9th 2008 8:47AM]

This is great other than if they then invent a portal gun, and a companion cube...

[Wes @ Apr 9th 2008 9:10AM]

"Where are you?" "There you are."




"I forgive you."

[Schizoid @ Apr 9th 2008 10:59PM]

"There is no cake"

Love that game!!

[Bill Reals @ Apr 9th 2008 12:25PM]

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw those.

[Chris @ Apr 9th 2008 8:56AM]

make it autonomous with say rfid based "allowed entry tags" ... then fill this baby with a mix of permanant ink paintballs and peperballs and solid rubber balls, and you have a real security defense that even would work for government buildings

hell

get a few thousand of htose and string them across the mexican border :) tada no more walls needed just an army of peper and rubber ball spewing autonomous turrets :)

[John Johnson @ Apr 9th 2008 8:59AM]

Does it support the Pelco-D protocol for Pan/Tilt?

[sully @ Apr 9th 2008 9:01AM]

I wonder how portable it is. It seems really useful for scenario games, but would be a PITA to lug that thing across crossfire to get to a good defensive posistion.

It would have to be set up quickly and not have too many problems with dirt, as well.

[Schizoid @ Apr 9th 2008 9:29AM]

"There is no cake"

"Ahhhhhhh"

[Bill @ Apr 9th 2008 9:29AM]

"Outstanding. Now all we need is a deck of cards."

[Thermos14 @ Apr 9th 2008 9:47AM]

I hope it comes equipped sound effects to make it sound just like the turrets in Half-Life 2.

[Skawt @ Apr 9th 2008 10:12AM]

Spy's sappin' my sentry!

[Teebo @ Apr 9th 2008 4:07PM]

Dangit, I thought I was gonna make the first TF2-related comment.

[MattyG @ Apr 9th 2008 10:10AM]

can i load it with ball bearings?

XD

[PRP @ Apr 9th 2008 10:23AM]

Cities should install these on top of street-lamp poles in "seriously dodgy locales". Maybe hook the thing up the gunshot detectors they have scattered around http://www.rajivshah.com/camera/camera.jpg.
I know a paintball doesn't compare to a bullet, but it would still be fun to see paintballs raining down from the heavens onto drug-dealers etc.

[Kurian @ Apr 9th 2008 11:29AM]

My spring loaded air rifle can skewer things with just a cut tip, so you could modify the turret and load it with cue tips.

[Jason @ Apr 9th 2008 12:12PM]

While at first glance $1400 seems like a lot of money, in comparison to many tournament level paintball markers its about average price. Its not uncommon at all to pay $1000 for a quality gun.

[Cheap Charlie @ Apr 9th 2008 12:57PM]

Tripod + electric tilt and pan head + video camera + control transmitter/receiver. I think I might be able to get that for less than $1400.

[doctorandymoore @ Apr 9th 2008 12:37PM]

I had one of these. Someone stole it.

[Ian @ Apr 9th 2008 2:01PM]

ouch someone stole your sentry turret.. thats just sad

[Todd @ Apr 9th 2008 8:02PM]

Cost of $1400 and up actually is on-par with high-end paintball markers, which have been known to cost as much as $1800 complete with custom fire controlled circuit boards and OLED displays.

[Timmy @ Apr 9th 2008 2:23PM]

You probably could use a Camera Trap (device you strap to a tree in the woods to take pictures of Bigfoot)as a trigger device so you could automatically hit anything that moves and have photos to prove it.

[Shaocaholica @ Apr 9th 2008 2:50PM]

This + nightvision + head/motion tracking

[ishism @ Apr 9th 2008 3:29PM]

OMG!!!, the weapons from my NES games are becoming real!!!

[steve @ Apr 10th 2008 9:58PM]

Here's a word for a more pithy statement: obviates.

[David25 @ Apr 11th 2008 11:24AM]

Hey, here's a video of a better one, that has motion tracking! should be cheaper too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc