Sonic Blaster is defeated by fashionable noise-canceling 'head shield'
By Vlad Savov 
posted August 28th 2009 10:56AM
posted August 28th 2009 10:56AM
posted August 28th 2009 10:56AM
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us navy fail...
millions of dollars to make the 'weapon' < few dollar's worth of cardboard
If anyone actually wore that thing in combat, their heads would get blown off before they ever got close to the sonic blaster. It's a cool concept, but it's not exactly useful IRL.
That head gear would make it easy for the snipers to pick out the individuals looking to storm their position.
Yeah. Good luck finding their head inside that thing.
Not if it was made out of a kevlar-esque material.
Also sniping protestors/rioters might make a bit of a scene. Well except in China...
More than a few dollars. Underneath that is a helmet, and several layers of double glazed glass. See the read link.
Snipers actually will rarely aim for the head, as it is a much smaller target.
A kill can easily be achieved with a shot to the torso, especially if the sniper is using a high caliber rifle like a Barrett
Not really a fail. If you're being attacked by a marauding horde of giant foam-headed foes, you can always fall back on lethal force. With heads that size, it's a sniper's wet dream.
no, it is a total fail, if moores law teaches us anything, the same acoustic blocking technology can be achieved in a smaller form in only a matter of time. Take a look at gasmasks, in WWI they were huge, by WWII they were so small and managable, using poison gas on soldiers was pretty much pointless (though it still had other uses, mostly against civilians). The fact that the British TV show (guessing they are like Myth Busters) was able to "outsmart" the Navy using a makeshift device reeks of fail in my book.
I can hear it in the battle field now... "Take out the bobble heads first, boys!"
@couchpundit: err.. this doesn't actually increase the size or targeting ease of the head. If anything, it obscures where the actual vulnerable mass is.
@ogmo - i'd like to venture a guess of between the eye holes
The sound thing was suppose to be used against suspected pirates and such, you can't just shoot everybody on the sea you know, and especially if you are a commercial vessel, you'd find yourself before an international tribunal, unless you join the pirates of course and hide in certain countries.
The thing is that you don't know about the people approaching, and international law protects strangers, and only a small percentage of people speak english, oh and sniping on a tossing and turning boat is not practical, they use mounted chainguns and heavy machine guns or small canons.
@kalid: uh, I'm pretty sure the head would be in the general vicinity of the eye holes. Just a guess.
@Spazghost: If you get shot with a Barrette pretty much anywhere, you're dead because of hydrostatic shock. They could aim for anything they want.
most snipers do aim for the head... its what they are trained to do. Any soldier can hit a target... snipers are the ones that make sure the target has 0% chance of survival. As always, take out the head and no one comes back as a zombie.
All you have to do is swap to the Brown note when the helmet comes out
"Yeah. Good luck finding their head inside that thing."
I suspect it's right behind the eye holes.
@oGMo.. All they would have to do is crack the darn thing, and the sonic weapon will work again. And as it's full of glass, well, accuracy isn't that important anyways. :)
and here I thought we were talking about Katamari Damacy cosplay....
Sontar-Ha!
$millions of research beaten by cardboard boxes.
i always roll with swimming goggles incase the cops wanna pepper spray me.
Reminds me of when that Sony DRM for disc copy protection was beaten by a permanent marker.
that piece of cardboard costs millions too
Well, color me impressed, the brilliant brits have found that 18" of sound proofing can block most sound waves. Amazing. Next up: rubber bullets stopped by several thick overcoats, tasers foiled by a sheets of syrofoam, and water hoses stopped dead in their tracks by the lowly brick wall.
New Age of Protesters. Completely ignores painful sound. Completely ignores a decent argument.
Erm, decent argument? From whom?
Ned Kelly!
i need one of those for my girlfriend
She ugly?
I think he was aiming for annoying, but maybe.
Yeah, to put it kindly, your girlfriend has a face that only a mother could love. From the neck down, however, she's lovely.
A paper bag would be more humane, my friend.
Is your voice that annoying?
Half human, half Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot.
Greatest news coverage ever.
"Attention we have a riot happening now on 54th and Lincoln which seems to be carried out by a mob angry Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots...wait...wait a minute they seem to be hitting people with Hulk hand gloves."
That scene would be priceless
LOL I think it makes him look like one of the cannibals from Monkey Island
Where can I pick up one of those? I need it, badly.
Yeah, I need a Sonic Blaster too...
I would bring a couple hundred to Afganistan put them on Humvees and turn them up at full whack while driving slowly through the mountain roads. That would flush the Taliban out. They might even fall down the mountains while trying to escape the noise. No need for arms.
Civil unrest has a new face...
Why not use Def Terrorists or some bose noise cancelling headphones
I get all my riot apparel from Bose
LOL! Def Terrorists? They a new grunge band? I presume you mean deaf terrorists?
Brilliant. :p
Def Terrorist:"Yo?! Is my new Hizzelmet def, yo?"
Deaf Terrorist: "What?"
Def Terrorist: "Yo?"
Deaf Terrorist: ",l,,"
Def Terrorist: "Yo...
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explosions... overpowerin'... over the competition I'm towerin'..."
I realize you were probably joking, but the way most noise canceling headphones work is they broadcast white noise that your ears ignore to cover the other sounds in the environment. So you would probably go deaf twice as fast.
WANT
I'm gonna need a hat like that for Prom.
WANT
I'm gonna need a hat like that for Porn.
@ FreshJulius
Heh. I see what you did there.