From light sabres to on-board refreshments, here are some of the best suggestions
So, yesterday we asked you to suggest what you would like to see on a helmet, following the emergence of the Livall Bling, the helmet with everything thrown at it.
From the sensible to the surreal, you came back with some pretty good suggestions.
A heat-seeking smack in the mouth launcher takes rather an angry tone, and is potentially problematic in application, but thanks Graham L Simmons
While Richard Frost, rather enigmatically, proposed a rocket launcher, size 9 (we hope you've been doing your ab crunches to stabilise that one when it goes off, Frost)
Proximity-activated defence came high on the wish list
@roadcc force field generator to protect me from cars.
But our all-time favourite had to be the sharks with frickin' laser beams, as suggested by Christian Dransfield on Facebook
Because when isn't a shark appropriate?
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In the 1980s I came up with a device that would "kill" the engine control units in then-modern cars, causing them to stop.
It would have been colossally unwieldy (and that's without the 2 kWh battery pack) and almost certainly equally colossally illegal. Despite this, it remained alive in my fantasies as a "car-killing ray gun".
Since then I have read of proposals for an EMP weapon (with the same purpose) that would "kill" modern car engine computers.
Can someone miniaturise one of these and mount it on a helmet? Or a handlebar?
Tired of the tr...replied to severs1966 |9 years ago
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It would be enough to send a carefully crafted radio signal. In modern cars, all electronics - including the radio/sound system, engine and brake control - are on the same bus (communication system), so you should be able to activate the brakes and switch off the engine remotely via the car's radio.
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In the 1980s I came up with a device that would "kill" the engine control units in then-modern cars, causing them to stop.
It would have been colossally unwieldy (and that's without the 2 kWh battery pack) and almost certainly equally colossally illegal. Despite this, it remained alive in my fantasies as a "car-killing ray gun".
Since then I have read of proposals for an EMP weapon (with the same purpose) that would "kill" modern car engine computers.
Can someone miniaturise one of these and mount it on a helmet? Or a handlebar?
It would be enough to send a carefully crafted radio signal. In modern cars, all electronics - including the radio/sound system, engine and brake control - are on the same bus (communication system), so you should be able to activate the brakes and switch off the engine remotely via the car's radio.
Something similar has been done: http://uk.businessinsider.com/researchers-show-the-ability-to-remotely-h...
The only challenge is to find similar vulnerabilities for other manufacturers, then we could just control the cars around us.
Remote Tyre stinger to shoot out on junctions when we can see cars are not going to stop.