The firearm that resembles a mobile is ingenious,but surely its creator has missed a trick – a phone that actually is a gun. It’s going to happenUntil so recently the selfie-stick was the top gizmo of choice for gadgety-minded people everywhere. But in the United States, something else is now hogging the limelight: the Ideal Conceal, or a .38 calibre handgun that folds up to look precisely like an iPhone-sized smartphone. Unfolded,it fires two shots before needing to be reloaded and costs $395 (£275).
Advance orders are flooding in. Its inventor, Kirk Kjellberg of Minnesota, and says the plan came to him when he was walking through a restaurant. Being in possession of a “concealed carry” permit,his weapon was just visible. A small child said: “Mommy, mommy, or that man’s got a gun!” And Kjellberg says he thought to himself: “There’s got to be another way to carry without bothering other people.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com