05.22.03
Personal Body Armor turns to Shock Jacket
Wired has posted an interesting article on a new personal protection jacket that gives an 80,000-volt electric shock to someone who grabs the jacket wearer without permission:
Dubbed “exo-electric armor,” the No-Contact Jacket looks like an ordinary fashionable women’s coat. But an inner layer of conductive fiber carries a low-amp charge that delivers a nasty but non-lethal shock to anyone who messes with its wearer.
“It’s kind of like sticking your finger in a wall socket,” said Adam Whiton, one of its designers. “It hurts. If someone tries to grab you from behind, they get the full, hefty shock out of it. That’s really painful.”