Electric glove for police to handle "rough characters"

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/21/electric-glove-for-police-to-h.html

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[morcheeba]

For anyone curious about the Motor Unicycle, here’s a picture of Walter Nilsson riding it in 1933. What a time of fabulous inventions!

[delightfultree]

Is that a screenshot from one of those David Lynch Theater videos where he invents weird things?

[generic_name]

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[stephen_schenck]

Excuse me.

[anon55609254]

Surprise surprise.

[silus]

Thank you! That makes a lot more sense than what I was imagining…

[GiantRobotPilot]

That kind of language reminds me of Fast Talking High Trousers

Fast talking high trousers

[Mark_Sniadecki]

I just started watching The Legend of Korra, and this concept features prominently.

[vrplumber]

[Brainspore]

I remember that a temporarily suit-less Tony Stark hacked one of these together after a trip to the local hardware store in Iron Man 3.

[bashful]

@pesco

… sufficient to remove all traces of flight."

Thatʻs not what it said. Itʻs, “all traces of fight.”

[LDoBe]

Batou wore stun gloves like that in one of the Ghost in the Shell movies. Or maybe it was in stand alone complex.

Either way stun gloves are unnecessary for a dude who can smash through a bridge deck using a steel girder as a battering ram.