Make taser-proof clothing with carbon-fiber linings
[Via Boing Boing]
On Hackaday, Shenzhen demonstrates some proof-of-concept “taser-proof clothing” created by adding carbon fiber to the clothes’ lining. The carbon fiber textile can be procured in a variety of forms, including upholstery fabric (58″ wide, $19.50/yard) and peel-and-stick 50cm tape rolls. Shenzhen claims this will work even if the taser’s prongs get to the wearer’s body: “Electric current flows through the carbon tape and not through the human body. Always. Even if the taser’s needle pierced the skin.”
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Of course, the next step if this works would apparently be to simply shoot you. But I expect efforts by the authoritarians to make it very hard to get this material if it actually works.
We shall see how this plays our.
A Man With A Ph.D. 