Weaponize Your iPhone With the Pepper Spray Case - brownthendre

On with the resurrect of smartphone adoption; faster processors; bigger, glossier touchscreens; and all the apps you tail shake a stick at has come an pathetic rebel in law-breaking. In December, a gentleman's gentleman on a bus in San Francisco was stabbed in the chest and robbed of his iPhone; in January, a thief iridescent a Bronx military man in the rearwards when he refused to hired man over his telephone set; and this calendar month (February), the cops have been searching for suspects in a twine of iPhone robberies on the N-prepare in Queens and Manhattan.

So, what's a overcautious, tech-loving smartphone user to do? Well, one option is the freshly released SmartGuard: an iPhone subject that comes equipped with its have tube of pepper spray. Perhaps the first case to weaponize the popular smartphone, the SmartGuard is made by common pepper-spray Maker Piexon with the rationale that if your pepper spray is attached to your smartphone, you'll never result home without it.

For those of you who might feel a bit…wary putting a canister of pelt spray next to your face when you make a foretell, ne'er fear: the SmartGuard's pepper atomizer canister is in a fastened position patc sessile to the phone. In fact, in parliamentary procedure to habituate the spray, you'll have to detach the canister from the case, then deject the diver.

Besides, you may want to check out with your local law enforcement agency before armament yourself with this case: Some jurisdictions may have restrictions on who can use pepper spray or kindred self-defense sprays.

The canister holds about six seconds worth of spray, and replacement canisters run about $28 each. The case itself volition set you back $55, and comes in black, white, and pink.

[Smartguard via Geekosystem]