[Bruce Wayne] [Shenzhen] wanted a garment that would protect him from a jolt, while keeping him toasty in the cold weather. Well that’s not it at all, these are merely two of his projects using the same material in different ways.
We’re going to start with the infrared image on the right. This is a vest with chest and back pieces made of carbon tape totaling two meters of the material swirled on each side. Hook it to a power source and the carbon tape warms the wearer. Portability is something of an issue as each “element” takes 36 W of power (3A at 12V). Click through for advice on how to interface the tape with the power source.
Onto the main event… avoiding electrical shock when you get all up in the grill of that mall cop you’re hated for years. [Shenzhen’s] jacket is really just an ordinary long-sleeved coat. But he separated the lining at the bottom seam and used fusible material to hold the carbon tape in place. The carbon tape provides a better conductor than your skin, preventing the shock from stunning you as it was intended. This really is the thing of superheroes, or former editors who should have known better.
Lets test it!! A volunteer please :}
Caleb Kraft will do it!
There was once in Austria a politican who thought tasers are safe. He let somebody try it on himself.
Well they are compared to the alternatives, would you rather be beaten with an steel rod or get shot with a real gun instead?
Tase me & I might just hit you in the face with Butyric solution (NOTE: This stuff smells like Satan’s intestines exploded–a corpse with overcome the effects of rigor mortis to try & plug it’s nose!)….
Strong Mace is mouthwash by comparison….
Just to add some numbers, here’s a list of people killed by tasers only in the USA.
http://electronicvillage.blogspot.it/2009/05/taser-related-deaths-in-united-states.html
The problem with tasers isn’t just being lethal in some conditions, but the sense of false safety they induce in stupid but good officers (“nobody dies so I can tase easily”).
Of course those criminals dressed as cops who happily use them as a psychological (before) and physical (after) torture device are the biggest problem, but don’t expect any government of any side to do anything to remove them.
No such thing as “good” officers.
Sure there is.
Eirinn is right, you can find them in the obituaries section of your local paper.
Let’s hope that doesn’t give the cops the excuse to use real bullets as their next available option.
Amen to that brother.
Nah, what you need to do when wearing the coat is to act like the tazer worked and go all “UHUHIHHUHUHUHUHHHUHHHHHHHH” and then make like you are going down, but just use your momentum to lunge back up at the last second and run like fucking crazy —– the cop or whatever won’t be expecting it and you will get a massive head start and stuff
the real question is, how far do tazers penetrate into clothing? would it just jam straight through the carbin tape and into your skin still? (i have no idea how tazers actually operate, for all i know the probe is an electrode in a suctioncup)
This should work even if the taser penetrates the skin. Since the carbon is shorting the circuit…
I’m gonna get me one lol.
Even for what you know, it’s not right, still. Tazers (or tazer guns) does not use suction cups. It uses metal hooks that actually penetrates and latches on to your skin (or clothing.)
I’d be interesting in seeing a taser tear down. Does anyone know of one which exists?
http://bigclive.com/stunner.htm
Note that the 100kV is “marketing kV” and most certainly not a real 100kV.
It can be 100kV. It is relatively easy to generate 1kV DC in the first stage with common components. Chop it up and feed into a 1:100 transformer and get 100kV+ output. With the right LC tank, you might get even higher voltages.
The spark gap would break down well before 100kV can be achieved.
The one that is labeled as “Spark gap” in that diagram is part of the chopping circuit (spark gap relaxation oscillator) that feeds the second transformer. It breaks down by design to close the LC tank circuit once the cap has been charged up (similar to a spark gap Tesla coils).
Now whether the second spark gap on the secondary side of that second transformer is set below 100kV is up to the construction.
That is not a taser. Everyone and their mom has seen take aparts of stun guns.
that’s a god damn stun gun, not a tazer, you dumbass. Damn i’m sick of morons not being able to tell the difference
“Do you even taze bro?”
Hell with my luck the taser darts would find one of the gaps between the heating tapes.
Unfortunately with today’s justice system, I am sure owning a jacket like this could amount to resisting arrest and obstructing justice..
Nah…more like you’re a terrorist. Then they steal the tech. that the hackers invented lol.
Plenty of good options for DIY ThorShields here http://www.lessemf.com/fabric.html
Yeah, that’s a great idea.
My best friend’s brother is a cop, and we’ve discussed this (and many other hypothetical scenarios) over a beer and BBQ at my place. The general consensus is that cops get REALLY paranoid when a taser fails to take you down. Maybe the weapon failed, maybe you’re wearing your hipster anti-taser armour today, or maybe you’re so strung up on drugs you just didn’t notice and kept on truckin’ like the Kool Aid man. It doesn’t matter, because by then the cop is already unholstering their service pistol and preparing to shoot you for real.
TLDR; anti-taser armour is a great way to get yourself shot, and possibly killed. “Your honour, he’d already anticipated getting shot with a taser, who knows what else he had planned!”…
In my experience, being anywhere near a cop is a great way to get yourself shot, and possibly killed.
(not really bashing on them, I’m just saying, their mistake rate is on the way UP.)
Sounds very unfortunate.
11% of the time a police officer fires their weapon, an innocent person is killed. I’d be curious to see the statistics involving all discharge of firearms and not just the ones that resulted in death. http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-control-myths/accidental-deaths/ This is versus 2% of citizens legally carrying
Tasers are used instead of possibly lethal force. If the taser doesn’t work, well then.
Sadly not always – they are also used to humiliate people (without any valid reason to be used) and also in cases where other type of force would be more appropriate.
Also cops aren’t the only ones with tasers…
By the time the failure of the Taser has registered in your mind the distance will have been closed and there won’t be time to draw your service weapon, much like how someone holding a knife will probably prevail against someone with a holstered gun if they are 15 feet or less apart when the altercation begins.
Cattle prods for humans (among other developments) greatly diminish respect for law enforcement in general, in case anyone hadn’t noticed. And while doing that they also greatly increase the public’s fear of law enforcement in general.
The majority of the public generally feels that they have a low risk of being shot for traffic stops and such but with Tasers there’s a common perception that it’s “open season” on anyone who looks sideways at a cop or hesitates to immediately comply with any order, but that’s not exactly the same as respect and is only making a perceived us/them divide between the public and the police wider. And once that divide gets too wide and the social fabric starts to tear, history shows the police always eventually ending up on the losing side because ultimately the authority of law enforcement rests on the good-faith obedience of the general public, not on batons, Tasers, and guns.
The public might vote to slash budgets, replace personnel and revoke pensions or it might burn the whole place down LA riot-style; whatever eventually happens will depend on how far the cowboys who like to dress up in jackbooted ninja costumes and herd people like cattle while they wipe their ass with the 4th Amendment (and 5th in the case of the quasi-legal and increasingly popular forced blood draws for suspected DUI) are willing to take it.
Tueller drill doesn’t say the knife-wielding attacker will win, just that the guy with the gun *won’t*.
Simple solution: Have something else planned, carry it out without hesitation.
How many “Taserers” are instantly “Tasered back”?
Make an aluminum foil t-shirt and be safe from all tasers. all you need is conductive fibers to be the path of least resistance, Tasers are trivial to defeat.
A neighbor of mine was shot and killed by four cops for clipping the leads of a taser. I can speak from experience this is a bad idea. Here: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/07/relatives_say_cleveland_police.html
The butchers knife probably also had something to do with it…
Problem is that the pig will then merely execute you summarily. You’re kind of trading up in problems here