We can only hope that these lead to an epidemic of ICE goons accidentally burning their own dicks off.

jwz@mastodon.social

The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves. "With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars." That makes it hard for victims to sue.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-t

fgbjr@indieweb.social

@jwz Repackaged cattle prods. They're deploying cattle prods. For use on people.

deweyoxberger@techhub.social

@jwz I'll post this to the general population: Heads up on those gloves. I've worked on similar technology (medical and HV design) so I'm aware of some of the design possibilities here. I read their patent. They are using too much charge to be intrinsically safe. A small, but non-zero number of people in the population risk death from those gloves (I strongly doubt they've taken into account the variation of human skin across the population, it's more than 2 orders of magnitude in resistivity). If they use multiple gloves on you at the same time, touching more than just one of your arms, you will be at elevated risk. I recommend you have long sleeves with conductive rings on them, like bracelets, spaced every 2 inches up your arm. That will greatly reduce the chance of you being harmed. Picture those silicone bracelets, have the outer surface conductive and that would be perfect. Stay dry. Then, know this: the muscle contractions that it will produce are far greater than what you have typically experienced. Picture the worst cramp you've ever had. It's that pain pulsing on and off. Be ready for it. It absolutely will do damage to your muscle, but you will heal in two or three days. I'm guessing a large percentage of the population can power through it once they know what to expect. There is, however, a range of pulse frequencies that is very hard to fight. You will almost certainly overreact and flail around, hitting people uncontrollably. I worry they will blame you and use it as an excuse to kill you. Whatever you do, don't consider having a large value low ESR cap charged to a high voltage that you can discharge into a coil of just a few turns such that it resonates at about 8 MHz while spewing a magnetic field. If a coil such as that were to discharge right next to the gloves you'd risk damaging the gloves (who knows, the lipo battery might even overload and flame on). I wouldn't recommend wearing those gloves.

karen5lund@mastodon.social

@jwz I want to see two ICE goons high five each other.

curvemudgen@mastodon.social

@jwz ICE locker room circle jerks are about to be lit

wastelandwandrr@freeradical.zone

@jwz We would not want that to happen:

tomhead@mastodon.social

@jwz I'm not sure which is worse: ICE deploying this to its goons, or learning that these gloves are already in use by prison guards.

pixel@oldbytes.space

@jwz I wonder if there's a way to design clothes with conductive material in it keep the charge away from the wearer. Even better, maybe there’s a way to reflect the charge.

soccermoviemom@sfba.social

@jwz Why didn't they try harder to invent an electric cattle prod that leaves no mark? Seems like that would have been more Trumpian and more ICE style.

walruths@mastodon.social

@jwz Is there anything they won't rip-off for evil intent?