Technology

Yeah paintballs are totally harmless, when people play paintball they wear full face masks just for shit and giggles. I doubt this thing can correctly aim to avoid hitting someone eyes with every shot, a little dirt in the barrel and just the wind can drastically change a paintballs trajectory. Be ready to pay for some innocent bystander’s eye surgery when you install this thing. Also when it freezes outside those paintballs will be as hard as marbles if they aren’t stored in a heated container.

This product is going to fail. Booby trapping or using force to induce bodily harm remotely is illegal. Im pretty sure people have been charged for building sprinkler systems that shoot at visitors that walk on their lawn.

Never thought i'd see words "paintball" and "ultra-high precision" in one sentence... Also, are masks going to be mandatory on the property that has one of these set up? Because someone is going to lose an eye otherwise.

I don't even play paintball, but The Whiteboard has taught me quite a lot about it. And apparently the inventors of this thing know absolutely nothing about the subject.

I don't mind paintball since there is a kind of paintball which MUST be thrown NEAR a suspect with unremovable paint. What I am worrying about is non-human aiming it. Now don't get me wrong, computer aim can be very good (see: any military defense weapon) but I doubt the startup isn't cutting corners somewhere.

Edit to add: Maybe a system of confirmation before shooting would also be helpful. Like, when intrusion is detected, the device should confirm whether to shoot or not. But I don't know how it will work at sleep time.

The same tech could be used to spray a jet of UV marker liquid which is safe and indelible.