Hoaxdevices.com

Xeni Jardin 8:23 pm Sat Feb 3, 2007

A growing catalogue of innocent things which, like Lite-Brite marketing campaigns, could be mistaken for Infernal Machines and inspire grandstanding by politicians. Submitted by the people who use them.

ROBOT ASSASSIN

I know most of you are thinking: "That is a small motor encased in a plastic tube, attached to a potentiometer and a pushswitch, so that some weird electric guitar player can use it to excite his guitar strings and magnetic pickups and generate an annoying electromagnetic whine." YOU ARE SO WRONG! It is actually a sophisticated robot assassin that flies and shoots lasers from it red side. It will track a genetic imprint by detecting genetic dust in the air and can find its target from 2500Km. Once near its target it will engage its Nuclearator (which is a secret super deadly technology that I can't describe here lest it fall into the wrong hands) and Whammo! Target is finished, and no more Frisbees shall fly in a very large radius.

Link (thanks natch, Wayne Correia, Nicholas Chaikin, Sean Bonner)

Previously on Boing Boing:

• State of Massachusetts insists on calling ATHF ads "hoax devices"

• Stickers: This is engineering, not bomb-making

• Boston LED terror scare: a message to the media

• Mark on ABC news about Mooninite devices

• Fake pipe bombs found in Boston

• Video of Mooninite menaces

• Boston Mooninite installer arrested

• Boston Channel photoshops Mooninite LED signs

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the Bomb T-Shirts

• LED ad campaign ignites terrorism scare in Boston

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