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We could spend all day talking about the morality, possible government uses, and legality of all this, but I would personally just like to take a moment to appreciate how fucking cool this thing is.



It looks like something out of Buckaroo Banzai or Hackers.


My first reaction was that is looks like something the Laundry would issue (from Charlie Stross's excellent series about a Turing-complete Lovecraftian British intelligence agency):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_Laundry_File...


The military-industrial-complex aesthetic doesn't really fit either of those two movies, but I agree there is a hacker's charm going on there.


I think I was mostly thinking of the exposed colored wires and screws. It not a clean-faced product. Plus, the science / action combination of hacking and guns made me think of those movies.

http://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/banzai4.j...

http://www.hscott.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_6491.jp...




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