A serious weapon or just something to use for fun and gags? honestly, it depends on the application of such a device. Speaking for myself, I’d love to have a hand on this for a couple of hours. Might just prove to be big fun!

Fancy building your own Klingon Disruptor? An ex-US Navy engineer has done just that for the bargain price of $500. The gadget fiend has built a ‘gun’, using readily available hardware that can disable almost any piece of electronic equipment from 20 feet away.

It consists of a parabolic reflector, a horn antenna and two ignition coils and is powered by a car battery. When the inventor, David Schriner demonstrated his new toy at the Infowar 99 conference in Washington DC, it disrupted the PA system and two nearby PCs, which needed to be reset even after the ‘gun’ was switched off. [Read the rest]

[tags]klingon disruptor,us navy engineer,parabolic reflector[/tags]