It's called a spark gap, and it's nothing new.

Yeah, it's either a spark gap, or an emp generator.

What about the P-bomb?

That's where I pee into a balloon and drop in on your head from the 2nd floor balcony.

*sploosh!*

Winn Schwartau talked about these at least 8 or 9 years ago...called them EMP bombs and HERF guns.

Here's something from July '95 and I know I read about it before then:

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/07/msg00053.html

Then what happened?

hmm. . . What if we placed these in france?

doesnt matter to me. i dont own a computer. i type everything out, save a copy for myself, then mail a copy to fark for them to post for me.

A null technology zone. Interesting. Wonder how that affects the energies generated by the planet? Interesting indeed.

Go here and note the date is in November, 1998 for the first "I-bomb" model in San Francisco.

There are more links to info on that page also.

If I walked past that thing with my wallet (bank cards etc.) I would probably drop an F-BOMB. . .

Good lord, if the Amish get ahold if this we're doomed.

"The ensuing result is the forceful removal of all technology from a pre-defined space."

BTW, that page also links to a video section with vids of it being "fired".

I'm with FuzzBeast, sounds like a strong EM generator.

I'd be more interested if it were a self-destructing pulse generator, something you could drop over or plant in an area like a traditional bomb. That would be infowar - or, more precisely, electronic warfare.

Insert "Fight Club" references here.

Who gives a rat's ass?

feh, we've known about EMP since the transistor was invented. Nothing new. Airforce is testing EMP guns down at White Sands, "knocking" drones out of the sky. Same thing.

'course, a real EMP 'bomb' is a nuclear device detonated outside the earth's atmosphere. That would destroy practicly any electronic device (not just computers and microwaves, but things like the electronic ignition of your car).

People are suing the pants off of power companies because they think the transmission line emissions are causing diseases. And these nerds think people are going to sit still while they saturate public areas with high-energy fields using this thing? In their dreams. The EPA will be up their butts in a heartbeat.

what's the ultimate range of this weapon? The article said 1-2 meters on a low setting. That doesn't sound too dangerous to me. Seriously, is this something to be concerned about? Answers anyone?

Got a pacemaker? Drop dead. Got a cochlear implant? Plan on surgery to replace it. Hearing aid? Hope you know how to read lips.

Yeah, this'll go over big.

[insert james bond refrence here]

I think we're missing the point of the whole site. This isn't a serious 'anti-' or 'pro-' anything site. It's all art and performance. Much like the propaganda-art movement (i.e. Obey Giant) It continues to mess with the mind of 'common joe' who thinks there's some kind of underground revolution going on when obviously, there isn't.

Now if we can just the ol' I-Bomb Technology to fit into a metal orb of about say 250lbs or so and push it off the coast of Freedonia...

where's my lawnchair!!?

Wow, that would be fun to set up inside the Pentagon somewhere. "War on microwaves".

Old news. These things were made years ago. I can just see the future of these things.

Example.
Enron: "We were hit by an EPM bomb. We lost all of our records."

Hmm...

I knew about this "I-Bomb", basically an EMP, for several years, no new news here folks, keep moving nothing to see here.

I see some good applications for this.

Think about it...say you want to meet someone and are afraid of having your conversation recorded...just meet them in a soundproof room and blast one of these buggers inside. That way, no one can listen with directional mikes and bugs are eliminated. Cool, no?

yo, all my chips be RADHARD, beeoch

Oh, and if we're going to move to solid state or holographic storage mediums for computers, we won't have to worry about records being erased. Though it might still wipe solid state drives, you can bet your ass that holographic storage would be unaffected.

Oh my farking god!
If these bombs start going off think of the throngs of computer geeks (yes, farkers too) who will be forced to crawl out of their holes and attempt to interact with the general public without the benefit of "side-way happy-faces" and other charming keyboard cliches... God help us all, will they remember to put pants on??? Screw it.. if they come out, I'm holing up with my stack of Playboys.. Thank GOD I saved those!

Hmm......anybody think they could build these? Like, can we have a development team of Fark Scientists? (maybe I'm giving all of us Farkers way too much intellectual credit)

Maybe Wil could build one, he is educated in 24th century technologies after all........

Anyway, I have a list of targets we could hit:

1. Dell
2. Compaq
3. E-Machines
4. France

Feel free to add.

Dude, you're getting bombed!

"sorry James"

Obbop::

The Feds put a chip in your head?? I sure hope it wasn't Erik Estrada.. he'd fry for sure.

On a side note I find EMPs are great to stop HWs and Soldiers, bu tesp demo men.

Did France surrender?

Yea, really.. this is nothing new. Just repackaged with an "i" in front of it to suit the modern-day hip kid lingo all those boss thugatrons sis speaking, yo.

At least they said, "I-Bomb" instead of "iBomb", people might have thought it was from Macintosh. Hell, this new incarnation might be -- Everyone knows Macintosh users are insane political and social fanatics anyway.

Wouldn't the thing affect itself? Or am I crazy? This was always something I thought about while playing starcraft.

wait for it, the E-Bomb, wait we had that, it was called the .com craze...

Tinfoil will protect us all

Doesn't affect me, I'm using a switchable pentode/triode arrangement.

Onegeek lmao! I can see it now, the new Macintosh iBomb, comes in several "hip", "modern" colors.....I see sales men screwing with people's heads by telling them that the red ones are "faster"....etc, etc.....

Sometimes I miss being a computer salesman, you get to fark with people's minds.

I wonder if the lead paint on my house will be a sufficient barrier...?

> Wonder how that affects the energies generated by the planet?

The what?

"What color do you want that database?"

"I think mauve has the most RAM."

range = 1 to 2 meters


sux!

Has anybody seen Ocean's Eleven? Sounds like a small version of the "pinch" that is talked about.

will this affect Totalfark postings if i decide to subscribe?

"If you're looking for maximum damage with your iBomb, you're definately going to want to go with yellow."

Stoatbringer, maybe he meant magnetic fields? Or maybe he meant Orgone energy ;)

The military has been experimenting with emp weapons for years that make this thing look like a firecracker. Of course, this is obviously just some kind of guerilla artistic endeavor. Apparently some banks in Europe have been blackmailed by groups threatening to zap their computers with a protable emp gun. The banks refuse to comment.

Popular Science did an article almost a year ago about many types of "E" bombs, namely -- If you wished for maximum saturation of an environment, you would create a version of the bomb using explosives.

Tightly coiling wire around a shaped explosive (imagine a long rod of material) would, when the explosive was detonated from one side, the explosion would create a pulse of energy that traveled from one end of the coil to the other with exponentially increasing charge until the end of the coil.

It would create an electromagnetic pulse capable of destroying numerous city-blocks of electronic equipment, even heavily magnetically shielded technology.

So to answer a few questions: Yes, if it were powerful enough to do real damage, it would destroy itself. And Xeroproject, If it were up to me all iBombs would be dull beige. But I've always been partial to blue -- I heard those were always faster.