The Variable Lethality Enforcer

These days the most advanced handgun you can buy isn't from the US or Europe, it's made in Australia. Primarily designed for law enforcement, the VLE (short for Variable Lethality Enforcement) does more than just shoot bullets. Imagine a gun that pages the police station when it's drawn from its holster, can hold a number of different types of rounds, and announce how it's armed in a several different languages.
To be sure the officer is the only one firing the gun, it's also equipped with a smart grip technology which locks it to one authorized user. The company that is developing the VLE (called Metal Storm, which sounds like the name of a bad Eighties sci-fi movie), is also developing a machine gun that fires rounds electronically instead of mechanically, but the article doesn't say whether the VLE also features this technology.

[Thanks, Warren]