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Home » Bizarro » Wonder Weapons, $20 a Pop

Wonder Weapons, $20 a Pop

MagCannon.jpgI’ve been a fool.
Obedient sheep that I am, I believed all those gov­ern­ment and sci­en­tific reports that laser rifles and hand-​​held force fields were decades away from real­ity — if they were pos­si­ble at all. Cloaked in the dull skep­ti­cism of a flat-​​earther, I naively thought that advances like “Electro-​​Hypnotizers” and “Ion Ray Guns” were the stuff of sci­ence fic­tion, or merely hoaxes.
Now, friends, my eyes are open wide. The truth has been revealed. Not only are these items for real, but a help­ful Internet retailer — “Information Unlimited,” out of Amherst, New Hampshire — has been thought­ful enough to sell them all under one elec­tronic roof. Huzzah!
My only ques­tion is what to buy first. Should it be the “Telekinetic Enhancer”? The “Sonic Nausea Device” Or maybe I should go with the “Magnetic Cannon.” Luckily, the plans for most of these projects are only $20. So I can afford to make some mistakes.

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  1. Kyle says:
    June 30, 2005 at 1:39 pm

    Someone needs to tell DARPA about this stuff, STAT!

    Reply
  2. Robert says:
    June 30, 2005 at 3:05 pm

    Sonic Nauseau Device? MYTH. Haven’t you seen Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters” — they tried to do that — w/​ a con­cert level sounds sys­tem. It was under the head­ing of the ‘Brown Note’ (w/​ the myth being that a spe­cific fre­quency was enough to cause you to lose con­trol of your bow­els).
    They never found it.

    Reply
  3. Jason says:
    June 30, 2005 at 4:26 pm

    Actually, the ‘Sonic Nausea Device’ is a com­pletely dif­fer­ent device from the one on myth­busters. While the brown note used very low fre­quen­cies, these types of devices use an ultra­sonic or very high piched tone to cause their effects. I can say from expe­ri­ence in lab­o­ra­to­ries that they do cause some effects that vary from per­son to per­son, although at very high dB lev­els they are very effec­tive.
    You can actu­ally buy devices sim­i­lar to this as ‘dog pun­ish­ers’ and ‘rodent deter­rents’ for around $25, and they do tend to work to some degree depend­ing on the power of the device.

    Reply
  4. Thomas says:
    July 1, 2005 at 3:11 am

    Gupta’s 1st law of cre­ative anom­aly:
    “If it looks too good to be true, that’s because it is”.
    All these gad­gets are the bees knees when it comes to crowd con­trol, non-​​lethal defence etc., and at 20$ a pop a real bar­gin. For less than the cost of a sin­gle Stryker, you could out­fit every coali­tion vehi­cle in Iraq with one of these.
    That is, of course, if you can live with their one minor flaw:
    THEY DON’T WORK !
    Reality check, people.

    Reply
  5. Hannah Kincaid says:
    July 1, 2005 at 6:55 am

    Thomas, Robert? Did it ever dawn on you your gra­cious host might be *kid­ding* and not need a “real­ity check”? I thought it was funny, Noah. (You think the “obe­di­ent sheep” and “flat-​​earther” lines would’ve tipped them off that you weren’t taken in.)

    Reply
  6. Brent says:
    July 1, 2005 at 7:06 am

    You mean the earth isn’t flat

    Reply
  7. William says:
    July 1, 2005 at 9:41 am

    Just don’t buy his kits. They’re junk. My ion ray gun kit didn’t even come with a printed cir­cuit board, just a bread board. I still haven’t fin­ished it out of dis­gust of the money I spent and the crap I got. He does have a book you can find on Amazon, I’d rec­om­mend that because all of the plans are already in the book.

    Reply
  8. Thomas says:
    July 1, 2005 at 9:55 am

    Re. Hannah Kincaid’s post, 01 July 05, 06:55 AM
    Hannah: Uhm…yes, it did dawn on me ;-)
    Besides, here’s some­thing scary: there are still peo­ple out there who truly, hon­estly do believe the Earth is flat (and, for that mat­ter, that some­one who has invented a func­tion­ing “Telekinetic Enhancer” would sell the plans on the web for $20).
    And here’s some­thing even scarier: Most of these peo­ple can legally vote !
    I remain, yours gra­ciously, etc.

    Reply
  9. chris says:
    July 1, 2005 at 11:17 am

    of course every­one can vote … how do you think bush won ;)

    Reply
  10. Spudgun says:
    July 1, 2005 at 6:23 pm

    Yup, Ive bought a cou­ple of thier kits, They really work!

    Reply
  11. anonymous shocked coward says:
    July 1, 2005 at 9:20 pm

    Gee guys,
    I have actu­ally bough some prebuilt(phasor prop­erty Guard(also fea­tured in Radio Electronics mag­a­zine) along with the “Phasor Burning Stunwand“
    I had the Phasor prop­erty guard sen­sors mounted inter­nal to a van I owned at the time… It would pro­duce headaches last­ing for hours when trig­gered.
    The pha­sor burn­ing stun wand sits per­ma­nently unpow­ered about 3 feet from me… that sucker can be lethal, will burn a hole in the side of an alu­minum drink can at full charge, 1 1/​4 charge (after burn­ing a hole in the above al drink can) it was almost human lethal. These devices do work and DONT have any safe­guards on them for fools.
    The designs and devices are the cre­ation of an MIT alumni in physics and are research pro­to­types and can in very many cases be very lethal. He has pub­lished 2 books con­tain­ing many of his designs.
    some­one who actu­ally con­structed these plans
    and ordered pre­assem­bled devices

    Reply
  12. guero says:
    July 2, 2005 at 12:37 pm

    um.. it’s really not hard to see that this site is a hoax. there’s a whole sec­tion of “anti-​​gravity” devices (www​.amaz​ing1​.com/​g​r​a​v​.​htm) which even has a video of one in use WITH VISIBLE SUPPORTING STRINGS. books are also on sale describ­ing “quartz crys­tals and their role in antigravity”.

    Reply
  13. Tiger says:
    July 2, 2005 at 2:45 pm

    ummm… you may need glasses, guero. That vid is of a legit­i­mate, real device uti­liz­ing the beifeld-​​brown effect. The wires are power sup­ply lines, not sup­port wires.

    Reply
  14. Otis says:
    July 2, 2005 at 7:55 pm

    A copy of this guy’s first book fell into my hands years ago… the kits are crap, but the designs are fine. I bought a tesla coil kit from this com­pany years ago and when it arrived the parts shipped didn’t match the man­i­fest… I ended up hav­ing to take a trip to the hard­ware store to get the miss­ing bits. I called the com­pany and was told that they have a lot of high school kids work­ing for them in the sum­mer, and they often make mis­takes in fill­ing the orders that come in.
    This stuff isn’t snakeoil, though of course the effec­tive­ness of the devices is undoubt­edly exag­ger­ated. The ‘Telekinetic Enhancer’ is obvi­ously a nov­elty, not a seri­ous attempt at demon­strat­ing true telekine­sis. Some of the weapons are too weak to take seri­ously, but some of them are pro­foundly dan­ger­ous, so be careful.

    Reply
  15. guero says:
    July 3, 2005 at 12:34 am

    the device maybe legit­i­mate and real but it is pow­ered, like the rest of the lifters sold on the site, by the biefeld(not beifield)-brown effect, which is an elec­tro­ki­netic effect. it does not amount to any sort of anti-​​gravity, which is com­pletely hypo­thet­i­cal. the only con­nec­tion between quartz crys­tals and any anti-​​gravity effects was a 1924 hoax arti­cle pub­lished in ‘Science and Invention’ magazine.

    Reply
  16. Tiger says:
    July 3, 2005 at 1:16 am

    It seems nei­ther of us can type straight, guero. I typoed the name, you typoed your brack­eted cor­rec­tion of my typo.
    The jury is still out on just what is hap­pen­ing with the capac­i­tive lift devices. The elec­tric wind the­ory has mixed out­comes as of the last I’ve heard, with revolv­ing counter claims of flawed tests by and from both sides of the argu­ment.
    http://​farshores​.org/​t​b​r​o​w​n​.​htm has a fairly decent writeup on the mat­ter.
    In any event, the lifter is cer­tainly not sus­pended by strings or the power leads in the video.

    Reply
  17. Manion says:
    July 3, 2005 at 2:32 am

    All devices should work if con­structed properly.(except for the tele­ki­netic enhancer which is obvi­ously an ebay fraud type thing) I got the book(Electronic Gadget for the Evil Genius by Rob Ianni) for all of them except the nov­elty tele­ki­netic item. The big destruc­tive high volt­age kill peo­ple things are fortunately(or unfor­nately depend­ing on your point of view) very expen­sive, over $100–200 dol­lars. So if your going to buy some plans for the big things make sure you have the money. Smaller items like the lifters and sonic pain beam are about $25 dol­lars. The ion ray­gun may not be appre­ci­ated by those who expect it to blow gap­ing holes in walls, but be appre­ci­ated by those who want to break other people’s elec­tron­ics and make metal objects charged with sta­tic elec­tric­ity from a dis­tance. The lifters do work, but there are really not anti­grav­ity. They’re really atype of ionic engine.
    Read more about this and other related things here http://​www​.amasci​.com

    Reply
  18. TexasFred says:
    July 3, 2005 at 8:56 pm

    Set Phasers to *stun* Mr Spock.…

    Reply
  19. JSAllison says:
    July 5, 2005 at 9:43 am

    find me a gauss rifle, and I’ll be impressed ;)

    Reply
  20. Ed says:
    July 7, 2005 at 1:07 am

    Help! — I bought some plans for $25.00 and I made a device that made my Sister dis­ap­pear! — She DID make me mad though

    Reply
  21. Timelord says:
    July 10, 2005 at 8:46 pm

    I can actu­ally state from per­sonal expe­ri­ence that ultra­son­ics over time can make one very ill indeed.
    Several hours of work­ing in a room with puls­ing high power ultra­sonic sen­sors caused me to become extremely ‘ill’ in that con­cen­tra­tion became dif­fi­cult, headache devel­oped, and slight ver­tigo occured.
    It was quite an unpleasent expe­ri­ence and occured twice (before lunch and after) before I traced the source of my dis­com­fort. Eliminating the ultra­son­ics had near imme­di­ate effect but it took sev­eral min­utes for full recov­ery the first time and 15 min­utes the next.
    The sec­ond time I was at point where work became a blur and I was forced to cease until my head cleared. My older, rather deaf co-​​worker across the room was affected but to a much less degree.
    Also note that these sen­sors were very high power as ultra­son­ics go. When a joker thought they would be cute and aimed it directly at me, I imme­di­ately was dis­ori­ented, unable to hear, and was hit with intense pain. It is hard to describe the actual sen­sa­tion as it was not com­prable to any other. To go deaf from loud silence, lose sense of posi­tion, and feel pain where sen­sa­tion should not occur is extremely unpleasent.
    Yes I believe at least some of the devices work but also believe that they are far from toys.
    Oh… and a side note, putting one’s hand under the sen­sor gave an imme­di­ate sen­sa­tion of… some­thing weird. I lack words to describe sen­sa­tion prop­erly. Perhaps ‘unhealthy’ would be applic­a­ble. :P

    Reply
  22. jason littlejohn says:
    July 12, 2005 at 11:01 pm

    I remem­ber a sim­i­lar group that offered kits like this years ago called the jack ford sci­ence com­pany. Anyway, some of these kits sound fairly amus­ing. I have heard about some of the sound weapons that have been tested on civil­ians that do pro­duce ill­ness. Tesla had a device that would gen­er­ate res­onate fre­quen­cies that could make peo­ple lose bowel con­trol. Mark twain who was a friend of Tesla and once at one of his social gath­er­ings, tried out his inven­tion, much to his dis­con­tent. Anyway, maybe it might work, hey its only $20 and if it does, what a riot that would be.

    Reply
  23. Liz says:
    July 15, 2005 at 7:44 pm

    Why shouldn’t these things work? And the anti-​​gravity wot­sit was described in an arti­cle in the Guardian. Not sure if it was the same as bei­field brown though… have to look it up
    Why don’t LOTS of peo­ple just MAKE all these things… and aim them at their local Republicans?!
    Then we’ll see if they work or not.….
    Bush needs to lose bowel con­trol.
    sorry for being unchar­i­ta­ble but it’s true!

    Reply
  24. ellen says:
    July 23, 2005 at 4:34 pm

    a test to see if i can post

    Reply
  25. Thomas says:
    August 9, 2005 at 2:50 am

    Ref.:
    a. “ellen” mail of July 23, 2005 04:40 PM
    b. My pre­vi­ous mail of July 01, 2005 09:55 AM
    As I was say­ing.….
    Remaining, yours cau­tiously, etc.

    Reply
  26. Lute says:
    August 12, 2005 at 9:45 pm

    The IU prod­ucts are not ‘TRUE’ utra­son­ics. They can be heard. Any onbe have an idea where a true ultra­sonic device can be pur­chased?? Maybe some­one can answer a ques­tion poised to me. If some­one had a ultra­sonic backup/​parking sen­sors would this pro­duce a sim­i­lar ultranic pulse vibrat­ing nearby walls like IU’s pha­sor pis­tol???
    Thanks, Lute

    Reply
  27. Erewhon says:
    January 18, 2006 at 9:51 pm

    Don’t deal with UI!!! They have been around for decades but their claims are all bogus. Not only did I have to threaten them with a Consumer Complaint to get my shot­gun micro­phone plans but when I got them they were poor copies of an extremely bad idea. The plans were as if some para­noid schzoid designed them with a crayon (OK I’m using hyper­bole a bit) but the plans were just stu­pid and unwork­able. I can imag­ine that there other stuff is just the over active imag­i­na­tion of New Hamphshire back-​​woods nin­nys and retards!!!

    Reply
  28. Albert Mond says:
    March 14, 2006 at 5:19 pm

    Yeah, you can buy those. Amazing1​.com.
    There are plenty of weapons of mass destruc­tion that can and are sold over the inter­net.
    For obvi­ous rea­sons, the mil­i­tary wants us igno­rant of these things. For, a neigh­bor­hood could become a strong military.

    Reply
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