YES!!!!!

[lapsedmodernist]

I want this!!!

A cell phone that shoots bullets! (claudelemonde, I ride my bike around Brooklyn alone, at night, drunk. So I totally hear what you are saying!)


1. An electronic device with a concealed firearm comprising:
a housing having an interior face and an exterior face and a peripheral side wall there between and with a cavity therein, the housing having a plurality of buttons including a keypad and digital electronics;
a tubular wall with a rigid central bore adapted to function as the barrel of a firearm, the tubular wall having an interior end communicating with the cavity and an exterior end communicating with exterior of the housing;
a chamber for receiving a bullet formed of a shell and a slug adjacent to the interior end of the bore;
a striker element positioned on the side of the bullet with a point adapted to strike the shell at the rear face of the bullet to discharge the bullet and propel the slug thereof outwardly therefrom through the bore;
an actuator on the side of the striker remote from the bullet to initiate movement of the striker element into contact with the shell;
a mechanism when activated adapted to release the actuator to move the striker element and discharge the bullet;
a second mechanism positionable in association with the striker element and the bullet to constitute a safety; and
primary electronic components within the housing including electronic elements coupled between at least one of the buttons and the first plate to allow the bullet to be discharged upon a first instruction from at least one of the buttons.

Yet again, I feel compelled to note that I find it perplexing that my friends find my knife collection "cool," yet my penchant for firearms "creepy."

Comments

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Guns have just always spooked me; not really sure why. Very few people had them where I was growing up; if they had anything there were a couple of hunting rifles/shotguns that were hidden, locked and never mentioned.

That being said, I like yer icon, and I can appreciate the practicality of said weapon in a case like yours.

[claudelemonde.livejournal.com]

i think knives are creepier, since guns are more removed and impersonal. you can point a gun at someone and shoot without really knowing who you're shooting, but you pretty much have to be intimately aware of whom you're stabbing, you know? takes more drive, intent, and perseverance.

i smell a thesis.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

the thesis is all yours, my dear. I've already got one. *throws up*

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

well, it's not like it's manufactured yet. Someday, though, someday...

[castironskillet.livejournal.com]

Knives have non-violent uses. Guns are soley for killing - and handguns, soley for killing human beings. I have a couple - so know that I'm not judging - but I think this is where the disconnect lies.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Guns are also for target practice, entertainment, etc. I mean, if we are going strictly by original intent in design, the US highway system is a creepy secret network designed by DARPA in case of a nuclear war.

[castironskillet.livejournal.com]

The intarwebs too!

... It also has the nice side-effect of creating a vertically-stratified structure wherein the poorest have the hardest time getting around and everyone is obliged to buy, fuel and maintain individual and expensive means of travel. ;)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

1. what does that have to do with guns?

2. as far as a "public transportation system" goes, highways are not ideal, but certainly better than any privatized alternative.

[castironskillet.livejournal.com]

1. I was just trying to say "I think I see your point and it's valid, and here's another example of what I think you're pointing out." For myself, I like the internet even more than I like speeding on open roads in German cars! It, like the highway system, is certainly more valuable to me, on a day-to-day basis, than my guns are.

2. Agreed - they're a mixed blessing though, for sure. It would be better stewardship of our planet, and kmuch more egalitarian, to have only rail, but *gasp* our GDP would drop because things would take longer to do. We might never have built our global hegemony! ....So we'd be free to work 30 hour weeks ... *drooool* (snap out of it, Rew! come on now, wake up!)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

It´s interesting, in theory both the internet and the freeways are essentially democratic/democratizing systems that however are class-stratified vis-a-vis the mechanical/technical "props" you need to take advantage of them.

[twotoedsloth.livejournal.com]

and if you collected highways, I, for one, would be super creeped out.

[yanatonage.livejournal.com]

I think that there is a lot to be said about guns, aesthetically. There's something really fascinating about the mechanism; the pressurization, the tiny explosion, the precision. And the fact that handguns are designed to almost be extensions of the body. Which reminds me, I've been meaning to visit the shooting range for the first time..

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

And the fact that handguns are designed to almost be extensions of the body

Speaking of which, have any of you seen that one Mapplethorpe photo?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

which one??

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

Argh, I can't find it. The one where the man in the polyester suit is holding the gun.

[mjmj.livejournal.com]

guns&knives are ok as human artifacts that people are fascinated with. (you know, don't you, that most (percentage-wise) people are killed by people who know them? guns make that easier and more likely. that might have something to do with people being worried about your collection.)

i think HP pocket calculators are pretty damn neat. and then there's the apotheosis of mechanical calulators, the curta:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/curta1.jpg
http://www.hpmuseum.org/curta2.jpg
http://www.vcalc.net/images2/Master18s-825x527.jpg

"It was designed by Curt Herzstark (1902-1988) of Austria, while prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943. The Curta is a cylindrical four function calculator..."

http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/mechanical3.htm