Vissumo Shows Off Touch Screen that Takes Gunfire; Still Works
Vissumo Shows Off Touch Screen that Takes Gunfire; Still Works
Posted 01/26/2009 at 9:20am
| by Paul Lilly
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Thanks to Vissumo, you may have one less thing to worry about the next time you find yourself surrounded by gunfire. The company has cooked up a touch screen technology it says can withstand a "high impact event," such as being repeatedly shot by 9mm rounds.
In Vissumo's humorous Test Video #99, an employee wields a Ruger 9mm pistol, shooting the touch screen three times (well, two and a half - the third shot grazes the lower edge). Afterwords, he walks up the the touch screen to demonstrate that it still works, something we're fairly certain wouldn't be possible with Apple's iPhone or any other consumer touch screen gadgets.
No word on what Vissumo plans to do with the technology or when it might show up in shipping devices, but it's probably safe to assume your next mobile phone won't withstand gunfire. You're far more likely to find this and similar technologies being used in military applications long before they show up on consumer devices.
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jcollins
January 26, 2009 at 11:13pm
What would be more entertaining is seeing it go up the scale. ie. start off with .22, then .38, then 9mm, 10mm, .44, .45, .50, then into the rifles and shotguns... :) What can it really take?
Keith E. Whisman
January 26, 2009 at 11:43pm
LOL... Sounds Fun as hell.. You can finish by hitting it with a GAU 19 .308cal Gatling gun. 4000rnds per minute and this thing is dust in 2 seconds.
Keith E. Whisman
January 26, 2009 at 1:16pm
I always wanted to do that to those Target Store signs but I'm too much of a coward. But don't pick on the shooter. It may be he was in rapid fire mode and was giving a tap to the head and a double tap to the center mass.
Perhaps his first shot was the lowest and his adjustments to his aim hit low and to the left and his third adjusted aim got close to bullseye. That's what I would do. Especially with an unfamiliar hand gun.
jcollins
January 26, 2009 at 3:06pm
Going off memory, it looked like the first shot was on, then the last two dropped, with the last one right at the edge. I'll have to check when I get home.
jcollins
January 26, 2009 at 12:42pm
Piss poor grouping. Not someone I want at my back in a zombie apocalypse.
I notice he didn't try touching it where the bullet hit. I'm curious if it still works there or not. Other than that, it's pretty cool that the touchscreen technology works through the half inch/inch thick bullet resistant plastic.
Keith E. Whisman
January 26, 2009 at 10:32pm
Your right he can't shoot to save his life. Wasn't even rapid fire. Nice Colt1911 .45cal. The .45 is a slow ass round. He should have shot at that display with a 9mm. Something with a supersonic round rather than a slow bullet like the .45 I've fired .45cal colt point blank into a car door and it didn't penetrate into the passenger compartment. .45cal isn't exactly an armour piercing round.
Nuxes
January 26, 2009 at 11:00am
I've seen this with a regular screen before, but not a touch screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAdku9YhSCI
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