Gun O'clock!

[Deer Hunter]

Those crazy cats over in Japan are at it again.

http://technology.todaysbigthing.com/2009/01/08

It's a clock that's alarm is only turned off if you can shoot the target with a small airsoft gun, or at least I think that's how it works. My Engrish is pretty rusty.

 

[TexasRifleman]

you can shoot the target with a small airsoft gun

I'm kinda groggy when I wake up.

I can see this thing full of .357 Sig holes......

 

[Tommygunn]

Ha! I have an airsoft Thompson ... wonder how'd THAT would work! ;-)

 

[Kind of Blued]

I thought they were suggesting using a real gun to get rid of the loud annoying alarm, like a "snooze" button.

I was wondering, "do they know how loud guns are?!?!"

 

[MachIVshooter]

I thought they were suggesting using a real gun to get rid of the loud annoying alarm, like a "snooze" button.

Well, it would work. Permanently, but........

In the same ballpark, I had a smoke alarm start the "low battery" beeping at 0'dark-thirty one night. A well-aimed overhand throw using a fully loaded Witness compact 10mm magazine took care of that (and left a nice ding in the oppising wall).

 

[armoredman]

Mach, that's a good way to keep the smoke alarm people in business! And those Compact Witness mags are heavy, I know.

 

[nachosgrande]

For the love of...........what the heck was that? They call that marketing?

 

[John828]

They really are crazy cats, I tell you

 

[BobOfTheFuture]

I like the shoot-timer setting

Its laser, not airsoft-bummer.

also sold out.

 

[gdcpony]

you checked?!!!??

 

[BigBlock]

LOL, those Japanese are some odd people...

 

[Lewis130]

Best of all, it doesn't break the "don't point a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy" rule.

 

[BobOfTheFuture]

I checked once i saw on the video it has the timer game function.

The target pops up, and it times you on how long you take to hit the bull's eye.

Sounds like a bunch of fun to me!

 

[AirForceShooter]

Once had a team member that while on deployment shot his alarm clock with his .45.
That got everyone up real quick except the guy that did the shooting.

It was pretty funny after we calmed down.

AFS

 

[skoro]

"It's cool!"

 

[greenr18]

I dub that the most Japanese commercial ever.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Pretty loud sounds those Japanese lasers make...

 

[Duke of Doubt]

Reminds me of the scene in "A Fish Called Wanda" where Kevin Kline's "Otto" suddenly awakens and shoots the alarm with a suppressed pistol, then settles back to sleep with a satisfied grin.

 

[moooose102]

alrighty then!

 

[Lightninstrike]

Weird, completely weird.

 

[hksw]

PiPiPiPiPiPiPiPiPiPiPiPiPi

 

[seale]

I got 20 seconds into the video and had to hit pause because I was laughing so hard.

First observation is how the whole tone of the video is so "American," specifically westernish. Second, did you notice how the cartoon guy is clearly a white American gun nut like us ?

Within the first 10 seconds it became obvious that in many ways, the Japanese men want to be like Americans. Nothing new about that but it's been awhile since I was reminded of it, ESPECIALLY in a way that communicates the desire of Japanese men to own firearms.

"Risten...Gun o'ocrock" lolz

Here's a demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeMx5_fEBxg