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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thats big news for 2 groups of people:
1. mexicans / non-mexicans crossing the border (if this will be used there)!!
2. the others in LOST, they can use this shit to attack the village!!!
LOL
LOST still exists?
Why is it again the military is developing weapons to pacify us civilians?
eh....i find that a sonic blaster would be a preferred choice rather then bean bags.
Since most rioters are stupid, I do not see too many employing these things.
Even if they do, just walk up outside the scope of their ~15 degrees of vision and push them over, they'll never be able to get back up without taking off their mega-heads.
Plus, think of the hilarity!
This would make an interesting shot, couple hundred rioters running at a police barricade wearing these things.
However, once they reach the barricade not sure how much good these would do against the old tried and true night sticks, tear gas, and tasers.
That thing would work against nightsticks and gas too obviously, 3 layers of polycarbonate and cushioning, the head would be secure, the body would need some extras.
I wonder how you breath in them though, if it's soundtight it must be airtight, but then how do you keep alive?
@Wwhat
It's reverse psychology. Make the solution lethal. Military invents harmful weapon. Military secretly leaks "easy" solution to harmful weapon. "Easy" solution ends up killing the rioters/terrorists/Richard Simmons. Military says that's too bad, they shouldn't have used those. Brush off their hands and moves on to the next axis of evil.
ah, clever that.
Whoa! That's probably how the first stormtroopers look like! ;-p
Reminds me more of Space Balls.
A big fat beanbag round would probably knock that thing right off your head.
You'd be left standing a few feet away from the sonic device with nothing on.
*** Cue the Deafness! ***
Yay, instructions for my very own Cone of Silence!
THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE
SCIENCE!
so what would industrial ear muffs do? the sort used on building sites. and what about noise cancellng headphones? i would have liked to have seen tha tested.
Vladi, there is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCPhNg_t9ZE
I think that's one of the new characters in the next Katamari Damacy game.
For someone with a bobblehead fetish, this is a dream come true.
I saw this on TV and he could still hear it saying it was as loud as a car alarm. Why not rickroll him? He would surely run!
So the future will be like Spaceballs then....
Yes, while you dweebs are worrying about crapgadget sonic blasters, the U.S. Senate is preparing real legislation that will give the White House a kill switch for the private internet, and appoint cybersecurity czars to oversee private ISPs.
In ancient Rome, it was called bread and circuses...
Oh, fuck off killjoy.
The navy just needs to develop power pellets, then they can go after Inky without worry...
Only use the LRAD really has, is against rioters and protesters. Maybe terrorist that might be charging checkpoint or boat like they did the USS Cole. But then again those guys are suicide bombers so a few seconds of pain right before they die not really that important.
That was a cheap quick solution that worked. Now if you were say a terrorist organization with some funds u can easily shrink and improve on it. Example is create a helmet that is double walled with airtight seal between the 2 walls and suck the air out of it now u have a vacuum. Sound can't travel through vacuum acoustic weapon neutralized.
ya but your ear drums would explode anyway from your bodies internal pressure ;)
Would stop pirates that use primitive means like somalians do from trying to board oiltankers though, there lies the use I'm thinking, but I wonder how well that sound does being aimed on a boat that's moving at another boat that's moving and riding the waves, waves that bounce away sound too, you'd need at least to have an automated aiming system with some intelligence, but even then, keeping it on a boat, it will be intermittent I bet.
Problem with that is even the primative pirates have rpgs if your close enough to use the LRAD they are close enough to use rpg. It is the threat of them blowing hole in side of ship is what allows them to capture ship that have more crews of 20 to 30 while there only 5 to 10 pirates. They just have to get close enough to be able to shoot. That's why those boats that get away are ones that notice pirates early enough to keep them at a distance till help arrives or pirates give up.
Fear is the key not the actual threat, even on land the 3rd world guys seldomly hit anything, and they often have shaped charges on the RPG launchers no suited against human targets, so being hit when shot from a small boat on he waves is not likely, and usually they are safe by keeping them off the ship with waterhoses, only if they get on board you are lost, it's he AK's that are more an issue when hey get close.
I was looking for something in more of a 16-bit solution.
I wish I had one of those so I can put it on whenever "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey comes on. I would endure any ridicule to never hear that song again.
Would you prefer the police to just shoot real bullets during riots? Even rubber bullets, if used incorrectly can kill. As the law enforcement agencies eventually tend to use what the military develops, it makes sense for the military to create something that would help.
Another way to think of it: the next time military personnel deliver food to some third-world country that just got hit by a tsunami or earthquake, would you rather the edgy and frightened natives be "pacified" en masse with guns because they got spooked for some reason, or would you like the assistance forces to be able to protect themselves via non-lethal means? Or would you just like to hear the casualty count because they had no reasonable way to defend themselves?
Actually, that comment was supposed to go to Rajiiv. Gotta love the commenting system here.
We shouldn't be wasting time resources and military personel on third world countries. There is nothing to gain from helping them.
The military doesn't stand a chance now. All those LARPers just need to make those helmets before storming the castle.
What was wrong with night-sticks and firehoses anyway? It worked for oppressing civil rights, why not for violent town halls too?
They should give those to the Whale Wars clowns (Sea Shepard's) on the Steve Erwin ship for when they are defending Whales from the Japanese whaling fleet. The Japanese are now using LDAPs against them.
They should just block port 389.
I was thinking the same thing - but I think you mean "LRAD" not "LDAP" - these things could double as life preservers, not to mention spook the japanese out of their whale hunting ways. They left the last episode with "we need to come up with some new strategies" - maybe these may make an appearance in coming episodes... :-)
At least when you walk down the street with it on, you wont get kicked in the teeth :P
Proof positive a bullet to the face is a much more effective deterant
Do you have to gallop to make it work? That IS what he is doing, right?
@nintendo fanboy hater -
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.