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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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