Since not many people like the unlethal guns, here is the opposite extreme. Same visual component, same software, except now there are micro adjustment motors on the barrel that automatically points gun to fatal areas when the gun recognized the humanoid figure.
One shot, one kill.
Now let's see which one people hate most.-- bing, Apr 15 2002 (??) Guns that don't kill http://www.halfbake...at_20don_27t_20kill [bing, Apr 15 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004] Dial-a-Smite http://www.halfbake...m/idea/Dial-a-SmiteThe Halfbakery`s very own smite-from-orbit system. [Aristotle, Apr 15 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004] (?) Guided Bullets (BLAMs) http://www.eng.aubu...binfo/AAL/blam.html [dag, Apr 15 2002] Yay! Online & Java Defender http://www.klov.com/D/Defender.htmlThis game shares the title of "Highest Grossing Video Game of All Time" along with Pac-Man. To date it has earned more than one billion dollars! [thumbwax, Apr 16 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004] gets my vote.-- runforrestrun, Apr 15 2002 I hate 'em both. This one is slightly more reprehensible, mainly because it is derivative horseshit.-- waugsqueke, Apr 15 2002 Build the technology into the bullet, it will stay on target and you can't avoid it. A miniature heat seeking missile of sorts.
This will significantly shorten the shoot-out scenes in movies.-- rbl, Apr 15 2002 We can't do that rbl, otherwise John Woo's excellent "Killer" would be reduced from 2hrs to 20 mins.-- mcscotland, Apr 15 2002 true. somebody should invent something to reduce titanic to 20 minutes. including the trailers.-- rbl, Apr 15 2002 rbl, bris has already done exactly that. (See Lunchtime Movie Shorts.)-- waugsqueke, Apr 15 2002 What we need are those smart bombs you get in games like Defender that kill all the villains with 100% accuracy but leave the heroes and innocent people. Oh, did someone say WIBNI?-- pottedstu, Apr 15 2002 They have those smart guns in movies, the bad guys fire 23million rounds and not one hit, the good guy has one shot at 4 miles with a pellet gun and kills all of them. (re: Titanic, I'm sure the best parts were left on the cutting room floor - the blank frames)-- rbl, Apr 15 2002 Um, I haven't followed the discussion on the guns that don't kill yet(I'm headed there next), but wouldn't this be kind of a moot point if the person you were aiming at is running. Like [rbl] said, build the tech. into the bullet, not the gun. And aren't bullets sort of shaped like a cylinder with a point on one end, where are the flaps that it would need to direct itself. You would be better off with a smart bomb like [pottedstu] suggests.-- barnzenen, Apr 15 2002 ravenwood: Sounds like Dial-a-Smite (see link).-- Aristotle, Apr 15 2002 Maybe the gun could fire a soft rubber ball instead of a bullet.
But it would use the a.i. "micro adjustment" to make sure the ball would bounce off of the target and into the nearest hornet's nest.-- beauxeault, Apr 15 2002 The technology is already in the bullet. Soon your gun won't go BANG it will go BLAM, as in Barrel Launched Adaptive Munitions. [link]-- dag, Apr 15 2002 //) Everyone is required to have a computer chip implanet inside their bodies somewhere. This chip sends out a constant signal giving their location, based on detection of GPS signals.// With this somewhat intrusive technology, who needs a gun? The cops just send a signal to the wanted guy, telling him/her to give themselves up. If they don't, a small bomb explodes rupturing something vital, and the bad guy dies of internal bleeding (less mess)-- RusNash, Jun 20 2003 RusNash's idea's better...-- bovinemilk, Feb 19 2004 Guns don't kill. People kill.-- sous-chef, Sep 21 2008 Technically it's the bullet.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 21 2008 //Technically it's the bullet//Technically, it is the massive drop in blood pressure and shock.-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Sep 21 2008 Progress! If we can narrow it down a bit further, a vaccine can't be beyond our reach...-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 21 2008 Would that be like a fizzy one with loads of oxygen or something?-- nineteenthly, Sep 21 2008 random, halfbakery