Big Brother's newest weapon
The GPS sniper rifle
It looks snazzy, for sure, http://www.backfire.dk/EMPIRENORTH/n..._product01.jpg but it has nothing on this gizmo, also made by Empire North
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The ID SNIPERTM rifle designed by EMPIRE NORTH
What is the ID SNIPERTM rifle?
It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.
Why use the ID SNIPERTM rifle?
As the urban battlefield grows more complex and intense, new ways of managing and controlling crowds are needed. The attention of the media changes the rules of the game. Sometimes it is difficult to engage the enemy in the streets without causing damage to the all important image of the state. Instead EMPIRE NORTH suggests to mark and identify a suspicious subject on a safe distance, enabeling the national law enforcement agency to keep track on the target through a satellite in the weeks to come.
The ID SNIPERTM rifle was presented by Empire North in Beijing at the China Police 2002 exhibition.
The ID SNIPERTM rifle designed by EMPIRE NORTH
What is the ID SNIPERTM rifle?
It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.
Why use the ID SNIPERTM rifle?
As the urban battlefield grows more complex and intense, new ways of managing and controlling crowds are needed. The attention of the media changes the rules of the game. Sometimes it is difficult to engage the enemy in the streets without causing damage to the all important image of the state. Instead EMPIRE NORTH suggests to mark and identify a suspicious subject on a safe distance, enabeling the national law enforcement agency to keep track on the target through a satellite in the weeks to come.
The ID SNIPERTM rifle was presented by Empire North in Beijing at the China Police 2002 exhibition.
It looks snazzy, for sure, http://www.backfire.dk/EMPIRENORTH/n..._product01.jpg but it has nothing on this gizmo, also made by Empire North
I want
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MoH
http://www.cpexhibition.com/police/listing/plclist.htm
I don't suppose there is much of a market for the brothers turning in some radical Swedes.
And the bullshit perpetuates itself. I'm going to bed.
n2nrn
Them and the Amish... the quiet reserved ones that 'always seemed so nice'.
I thought it was from the Onion, for a second... too satirical to be taken seriously.
At any rate, I sincerely doubt that it's real. The projectile would have to be small enough to cause no visible skin damage when shot into a person at high speed. That would mean it would have to be very tiny indeed. Part of that very tiny projectile would have to be a strong casing to protect the delicate circuitry inside -- leaving how much room left over on the inside for circuitry?
I simply don't believe we have flea-sized circuitry for complete GPS systems yet -- GPS systems with both receivers (to pick up GPS signals) and transmitters (to send out tracking info). And that's not even considering how you'd fit a power supply into this thing with enough juice to power the system for more than a few seconds.
Even fitting something like this into the size of a large bullet would be an enormous challenge -- although if you did manage such a feat, you might have the advantage of making your target easy to track since he or she would likely cease moving after the tracking device hit.
Originally posted by curiousuburb
The site's Danish, not Swedish... but everybody knows it's the Swiss you've got to watch out for.
Them and the Amish... the quiet reserved ones that 'always seemed so nice'.
I thought it was from the Onion, for a second... too satirical to be taken seriously.
I thought it was the Mennonites. The Amish huh?
But the guy evidently managed to convince the Chinese police
n2nrn