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While the design is certainly worth a chuckle, you probably wouldn’t want to take this USB bomb on a trip with you. If it ever went into production it’d be more of a novelty item than anything else.

The device looks like one of those bombs that Wile E. Coyote might have purchased from the ACME catalog, or maybe from those old Spy vs. Spy cartoons in MAD magazine.
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They'd have to be some properly scopey customs officers to think anyone'd make an explosive shaped so conspicuously.
 
This terrorism potential of this device is nearing Macbook Air levels.
 
Wally said:
They'd have to be some properly scopey customs officers to think anyone'd make an explosive shaped so conspicuously.
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Half the time you'd be rectally probed and the other half they wouldn't notice it if it was ticking and leaking glycerin.
 
Really though, who wouldn't want to walk into work one day, whip this out of their pocket, wave it in the air, and then gingerly plug it into the usb hub as if nothing were amiss? Works better when you were voted "most likely to go postal" at the last company holiday party.:)
 
I'm a Muslim guy in the UK, I've still got my "WARNING C4 COMING THROUGH" white satchel I bought about back in 2000 from Cafepress (been on CS since beta 1, so bought it as a laugh)

Never taken it outdoors, but maybe this will be less conspicuous on the Tube (London Subway)? :D





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Oh, I have guns pointing at my head :(
 
Wally said:
They'd have to be some properly scopey customs officers to think anyone'd make an explosive shaped so conspicuously.
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These are the same people that got freaked out by an ugly LCD sweatshirt, of course they will respond with maximum force


cliche I'm a Muslim guy in the UK said:
Tried to find it, does not seem to be there anymore, if you find it again please email
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lol I'd like to see someone take this to an airport just so I can read the story.
 
Boozer said:
Why not!? I don't see what the problem is >.<
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I'm with you. I don't really see the problem. Its a black plastic sphere with a usb cable. It isn't like it looks like a replica of C4 or something made to not look like a computer part. At worse, I could see them haveing you open your bag to see what the sphere is as it wouldn't look like a standard shape to them. Hell if anything, I could see them thinking its a fishbowl based on its shape.
 
people like me would use these for haloween...

I'd dress up as Bomberman and walk into the party juggling these (after I cut the USB cords and repainted to make it look like they were white with sparks at the end). Or, I can just buy real burn cord and light it as I walked in... man, that would be hillarious...

now I must think of how I would go about making a Bomberman costume...
 
im game for a couple as gifts, i could always get some lettering and spray paint TNT on the side or Bomb lol
 
The Red said:
people like me would use these for haloween...

I'd dress up as Bomberman and walk into the party juggling these (after I cut the USB cords and repainted to make it look like they were white with sparks at the end). Or, I can just buy real burn cord and light it as I walked in... man, that would be hillarious...

now I must think of how I would go about making a Bomberman costume...
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I managed to find a pic of how NOT to make one.

http://magliery.com/Graphics/Halloween97/apcpix/sternbomber.jpg
 
ssratt said:
These are the same people that got freaked out by an ugly LCD sweatshirt, of course they will respond with maximum force




Tried to find it, does not seem to be there anymore, if you find it again please email
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Been trying to buy another one, but not been on sale since 2000 ish (presumably after 2001 incidents).Not that I could find 'em after trying for the best part of half a decade :(
 
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