Pepper spray iPhone case

$40 at The Fancy

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Do you have an iSting?

What’s an iSting?
http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

No _way_ this could go wrong!
- nowimnothing
  
  Now smile real big and say CHEESE!
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

i’d use this at bland restaurants.
Mark Dow

Useless if it isn’t front-facing.
artbyjcm

I can’t wait for first person videos of people getting pepper-sprayed in the face to show up on youtube.

But other than that, this is by far the dumbest idea in the world. I think it’s stupid to have pepper-spray on something you pull out as often as keys. On a phone? Every five minutes someone is pulling out their pepperspray?
Why not just be done with it and make a butterfly knife iphone case?!
- http://twitter.com/Bashtarle Bashtarle
  
  Butterfly knife iPhone case you say ….hmmmm …. To the Patent Mobile!
Halloween_Jack

Rob Beschizza did a post a while ago about some import company that specialized in tacky, cheesy, cheap USB accessories. Sticking crap on an iPhone case in a clumsy location and charging a premium for it seems much along the same vein.
http://twitter.com/bazimmerman Brad Zimmerman

If it won’t spray a whole line of sitting protesters in the face then it ain’t good enough.
http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

I’m looking forward to the official Mossad iPhone case
Trefunk

Mace Time!
tsol

Illegal in NYC- the city doesn’t want potential rape victims to usurp the government’s monopoly on legal violence.
pjcamp

iFart.
- pjcamp
  
  And just so I can get there first, he who smelt it . . . .
http://creamneuron.tumblr.com/ creamneuron

This would be awesome, if the Spray is triggered software-sided. So someone could code malware to trigger the spray anytime.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZQ7TZ4C22MZT4G244CYOWPWAG4 Marc

Can different chemical-containing canisters be inserted with say tear gas and/or air freshener?
eldueno

An obvious yet unmentioned use for this iphone is that it can now be used to give flavor to bland food, an app not even Steve Jobs would have thought of.