mikemyers
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.....the display case in my uncle's office containing a slide rule and an abacus with lettering on the front that said "In case of power failure break glass."
Absolutely - were someone to go sailing out into the ocean, a GPS and all the related electronics might be worthless should something go wrong - in which case a good old "sextant" (and knowing how to use it) might be far more useful.
I tried, but never did learn how to use an abacus. On the other hand, I had to know how to use a slide rule while growing up, along with all those tables for calculating trigonometric values.
.........and an $8,000 Nikon D4s camera outfit is useless if you can't charge the batteries.
............and when/if the world goes haywire, and there is no electricity available, people might wish they still had one of those old tube ham radio sets, and a supply of batteries.
Still, if I had a family, with kids, and I was concerned about safety, I would want to own a gun, and the Armatix seems like a step in the right direction, all things considered. (But it would likely be in addition to an old style gun that would be locked somewhere, somehow.