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I think everyone knows what a Taser is. If you don’t, stroll on down to your local police station and cause a non-violent ruckus. You’ll find out pretty quick. Ok, don’t do that. Anyway, Tasers deliver non-lethal electric impulses to hostile individuals. Law enforcement and military units use them all the time. They are great for taming wild drunks and for party tricks. Well, one of the issues with Tasers is that they require wires. Well, Taser has come out with a projectile version. Now you can do party tricks from up to 100 feet!
The XREP can be fired from a standard 12-gauge shotgun. This amazing device weighs on 2.4 grams and takes up less than one tenth of a cubic inch of space. A rip cord attached to the projectile from the shell activates the unit. When the unit hits the target, the four forward facing barbs attach to the target and deliver the shock for 20 seconds. If the victim is able to grab the unit, shock will be sent to the hand as well, causing “a significant spread that allows the XREP pulses to affect a large body mass, causing overpowering Neuro Muscular Incapacitation.”
“To maximize incapacitation, the XREP engine incorporates a microprocessor controlled optimal electrode selection technology. Twenty times per second, the XREP Engine checks for the best electrode connection to maximize the contact spread and achieve greatest incapacitation. If the Cholla or Reflex Engagement electrodes make contact, the XREP engine automatically delivers NMI impulses from the nose electrodes to the selected electrode. In fact, if the subject even grabs the tether, a live hand-trap wire makes a connection and the NMI effect is delivered through the hand, preventing the subject from letting go. If none of the preferred electrodes are in contact, the XREP delivers its impulse across the front electrodes, creating a painful stimulus to distract, disorient, and entice the subject to grab for the XREP making a hand connection, or to move in reaction to the pain which can help the cholla electrodes on the main chassis to engage. ” They expect the XREP to be available in 2008.
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neat stuff. I dont see how they pack that much power into such a small space