No love from CUPID: New Taser Drone

Published on March 8, 2014 By DrJBHL In Everything Else

You’ll be receiving no Valentine from this CUPID: The Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone. This via Zach Honig at Engadget.

photocredit Engadget

This drone ‘copter delivers an 80,000 Volt zap. The developers say it’s for use against ‘bad guys’. The devs hail from Chaotic Moon, the same people who developed SharkPunch (and its Leap Motion visor mounted controller) and Oculus Rift and VR software as well as a motorized, gesture controlled skate board (Board of Awesomeness). They’ve built various apps and games for MS, Fox, News Corp, Pizza Hut, CBS Sports, Sanrio, Betty Crocker, Starbucks, Best Buy, Goupon and The Discovery Channel. No surprise, they’re tied into Silverlake Partners (private leverage firm with MS among others as clients). Check out Chaotic Moon on the Wikipedia.

They’ve developed a ‘Smarter Cart’ that follows the shopper around the store, using Kinect for gestures/commands. It can also ‘guide’ shoppers to the goods on their shopping list (insert preferred product marketing money here). Shudder.

Well, this little gem (Stun Copter) will probably be the darling of Police Departments everywhere.

Have a good weekend!

Sources:

http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/07/stun-copter-video/?utm_source=Feed_Classic_Full&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget&?ncid=rss_full

http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/07/punching-virtual-sharks-for-points-oculus-rift-leap-motion/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/22/leap-motion-controller-review/

http://www.engadget.com/tag/oculusrift/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaotic_Moon_Studios#Research_and_development

Comments (Page 2)

ElanaAhova

on Mar 21, 2014

starkers

reply 15

Quoting Uvah, reply 14

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 13It's not like the US is assassinating their own citizens (often).

Unless they're involved with one or more fundamentalist groups.

Not even! One only has to piss off the wrong cop/public official and you're toast.

Frankly, I think cops need to be more stringently tested in the academy to see if they're likely to take the power of the uniform/badge too far when fully fledged officers.... and if so they simply are not sworn in.

Sometimes the only difference between a cop and a violent criminal is the badge/uniform... and either way, violent cop or violent criminal, they need to be kept off the street for public safety.

Its not just individual offices. Its also the group mentality, the 'us' and 'them' attitude that forms. It doesn't help that anyone who expresses interest in the US bill of Rights is labeled a 'terrorist.' Seriously, that's one of the red flags!

Uvah

on Mar 21, 2014

ElanaAhova

reply 16

who expresses interest in the US bill of Rights is labeled a 'terrorist.'

First its pee in your pool and you're a terrorist, Now you're one if you read a document.

davrovana

on Mar 21, 2014

Uvah

reply 17

Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 16who expresses interest in the US bill of Rights is labeled a 'terrorist.'

First its pee in your pool and you're a terrorist, Now you're one if you read a document.

I rented Bad Boys 2, two consecutive weekends in a row.

TERRORIST.

starkers

on Mar 22, 2014

ElanaAhova

reply 16

Sadly, it is the way of government and the bureaucracy... the presumption of innocence is now from a bygone era and the group mentality soon becomes a gang mentality that targets even the innocent. I wondered when the US used drone technology against Pakistani Taliban targets just how much longer it would be before it was used on US citizens... and here we are.

ElanaAhova

on Mar 22, 2014

starkers

reply 19

Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 16Its not just individual offices. Its also the group mentality, the 'us' and 'them' attitude that forms. It doesn't help that anyone who expresses interest in the US bill of Rights is labeled a 'terrorist.' Seriously, that's one of the red flags!

Sadly, it is the way of government and the bureaucracy... the presumption of innocence is now from a bygone era and the group mentality soon becomes a gang mentality that targets even the innocent. I wondered when the US used drone technology against Pakistani Taliban targets just how much longer it would be before it was used on US citizens... and here we are.

Oh, but they are not really US citizens. They are terrorists. Don't you speak the new language? Orwell is alive and well, and haunting in DC.

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