I do like this device and it reminds me of one of Ironman’s weapons in a way, but the stuff used to make it sounds like it would burn the palm after prolong use.

you could make it shoot plasma bolts… but the power supply needed would make it a stationary model. :-D

Look for this in Alan Wake 2.

Also is the insane bright flash coming from the front light or does it seem to be coming from the back of the hand in the video.

What if you took the route the Prop-Designers did from “Logan’s Run”. The pistols they used had a canister of compressed C02 that was hit with a bright light whenever the trigger was pulled. This created a greenish burst of gas expel from the gun barrel.

What if you placed a small canister of compressed air onto the rig. Then a split second before the light went off, a valve opened up releasing a stream of air into a small resivor filled with Dry Ice. From there a pipe would extend below the wrist (insulated of course) that would shoot a stream of dense gas across the area. From there the light would flash illuminating the stream in the dark.

next obvious step, make it a strobe instead of a single flash. much more disorienting

I was just going to say exactly what junkhacker said. I developed something akin to this a few years ago. The fun part is cascading the flashes. I found it much more effective to use several separate flash bulbs with a randomized flash delay. The disorientation of receiving not only several flashes but several, sometimes 3 or 4 at once.

Drugs/alcohol can nullify stun guns and mace but anyone who sees the flashes gets affected and there aren’t many blind successful muggers.

heh, now that i think about it, maybe he could combo it with a magnetron to fire of microwaves in the same direction. “The light, it burns!”

All this talk about disorienting muggers, didn’t anyone think what might happen if the mugger had this (or something similar), disorient and confuse the victim with less chance of them being able to ID you.

(note: I am not nor have ever been a thief.

Very interesting. I had at one time thought of something similiar, except I was thinking of using 5W white LEDs (or perhaps 3 3W LEDs in the colors red, green & blue). This seems like a better idea though.

@adam felson
Not really. I used to walk around alone late at night, and something like this (mounted on your jacket, and with 360 degree coverage) would allow you to walk around safely without carrying something your local law enforcement official probably woundn’t get to worked up about.

But where did the lighter fluid come from? /GOB

So that’s an arm-mounted camera blitz… Why should I be impressed by that?

that small of a Xenon strobe is too dim. he needs to get a larger coil type that a studio strobe uses. you can literally feel the pulse of light and hear a very loud pop. Probably would only get 2 firings out of those AA batteries though…

if i were in the situation don’s friend was in, we would be seeing something awesome here. a very large array of camera flashbulbs. smaller arrays mounted to vehicles. somebody tailing you, especially at night? Blind em. back of your car packed tight with flash bulbs, DC in for all the charging circuits wired to same regulated power source. triggered in unision, or in groups incase you miss because they were blinking, you could fire half, or a quarter at a time. just wire all the triggers in bundles, to momentary switches on your dash. if you were in a car chase, disorient them, they can’t see anything but phantom stains of green/purple/blue whatever. then they either pull over or hit something. either way they’re off your tail. also great for stunning deer so you can sneak up and knife them. conserves ammo:D

It’s nicely built but, as other commenters have pointed out, it’s only a step up from banging a disposable camera on your palm to trigger the flash.

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The only way this would work Is
1. Make The flash duration longer.
2. Make them shock resistant. I.E, Knockin foo’s out wit em. resistant.

Be nice in rough neighborhoods.