The ‘EMT Paintball Sentry Turret’ is a built-to-order motorized turret that can be operated from the safety of your nearby bunker. Or if you opt for the 2.4 GHz wireless version — then boost its transmission range with an optional 2-mile transmitter — from the comfort of your own home, snifter of brandy at hand. Only common infantrymen get dirty while killing.
The basic dual-barrel Turret can rotate 350° laterally with up to 90° of tilt. (The question, of course, is how quickly it can turn.) The basic hopper holds 200 paintballs, but like almost everything else on the Turret this can be upgraded. Want night vision? Upgrade cameras? Video recording to flash memory? An attached target that will enable enemy soldiers to temporarily disable the Turret? Winterproofing? For a price, EMT will add all these to your little three-legged Action Jackson Pollock.
Prices start at $1,400 for the wired version, quickly climbing into the middle thousands with all the trimmings. For the first time in my life, I wish I was the manager of a cubicle farm.
Product Page [EvolutionModelTechnology.com via Technabob via Oh Gizmo]
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I’m not interested until I can make one say, in a childish lilting voice, “Are you still there?”
This is clearly straight out of Half Life, it just needs automating. So where are the paint ball versions of all the other Half Life weapons? Surely we *need* paint ball mines with laser proximity detection.
“Spy’s sappin’ mah sentry.”
We all know this is going to lead to real life reenactments of Team Fortress.
I’d only want one if I could make it better by beating it severely with a monkey wrench.
Seriously, the 4 previous comments are all I had to say about this thing when I read the article. Get out of my head, I say!