jammingyourvibe
Saw this over at Gizmodo...
A man-portable Wireless Jammer.
The blogs are all making fun, insinuating them to be tools of Luddites and the Amish... which is sort of amusing but it doesn't get to the significance behind one of these babies.
I want one, if for nothing else but to start collecting weird and almost useless tools.
Except it has this use: There are a lot of non-CCTV wireless cameras out there that people take for almost as secure as laid-in CCTV, and cheaper, without having all the wiring to worry about...
It's a ridiculously useful burglar's tool. My mind may think in weird tangents... but what I'm saying is true, if you think about it. Pocket-sized, doesn't get in the way of any of your other break-in gear, and handy enough to have pretty much anywhere, and if you've specced the cameras in the place you're hitting and they're wireless, tested the jamming capabilities of your widget...
The somewhat hefty price tag can always be offset by the fact that you get away with diamonds, bonds, and cash.
Innnteresting.
Of course, you can always just be that annoying dude in the coffee pub who turns off a wireless jammer for the sake of being a jerk, but shelling out that kind of cash to be a jerk seems... silly.
I can also think of uses in industrial espionage, counter-terror, and all sorts of fun and games.