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Lipstick Stun Gun Comes In One Shade: Frazzled 'Nads

Forget DIY camera stun guns: they're just a stunt. If you want real pocket protection, these charmingly disguised stun guns can deliver 350,000 volts of agony to an assailant. Will they think it looks like you're just brandishing a tube of lippy at them? Probably not an experiment to try. They have an LED flashlight built-in, and come with a charger. If carrying this around in your purse makes you feel safer, they're available for a paltry $49.95 in a variety of shades and shapes. So you can, you know, coordinate your electro-shock defense with your outfit. Weird. [Red Ferret via Gizmodo UK]

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PSPs For Assholes Hold a Shocking Secret

The gadgets you see above may look like your average Chinese knock-offs, but they hold a most shocking secret. They don't play video games or MP3s, but you would be forgiven if you thought as much. You would not be forgiven if you picked one of these bad boys up, as they'd shock the bejeezus out of you—literally. More »

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Shocking Stapler

Ensure that nobody ever borrows your stapler again with this real-looking Shocking Stapler. It's even colored red like Milton's, which means your co-workers are all the more tempted to grab for it as they drop by unannounced while you're trying to get some work done. More »

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Shocking Alarm Clock

We've featured a bunch of alarm clocks over the years, but this one seems to be one that'll either wake you up fast or you'll smash it against the wall on the second day. On the surface it looks like a regular old school alarm clock, but when you reach over to shut it off it gives you an electric shock. More »

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Shock Ball Takes Hot Potato to a New Level

Unless you are playing hot potato with a flaming tennis ball, then you aren't playing hard enough. And if that flaming tennis ball is a bit too much, then the Shock Ball may be more of your liking. Charge up the ball and begin tossing it around. The Shock Ball has contact points all over and a timer that will send jolts all over after a set length of time. Pair this $40 toy up with a BongXedo for one hell of a night. More »

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Pikashoes: Lightning Power at Last

In Gizmodo's unending quest to become a team of supervillians superheroes, we've come across the Pikashoe. As my pea brain understands the science, the shoe sends low voltage negative ions somewhat safely through your body to the ground. But if you touch someone who is uncharged, ZAP, they are toast. More »

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Tazer Gloves: DIY and Fight Crime for $20

We'd all like to be superheroes, but none of us are getting any stronger by sitting our asses in front of our beautiful, baby blog. That's ok — you can follow this instructables.com tutorial to make your own Tazer gloves for $20 dollars worth of rubber gloves, tin foil, some AA batteries, and a disposable camera. Has a 300 volt standard mode, and a supercharged jolt that is "much more painful." More »

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Shocking Lie Detector

Hide this Shocking Lie Detector from your wife, or the next time she asks you where you were until 2am, that "I was working late Honey" is going to cost you all the feeling in your fingers. More »

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Shocknife

Need training against a knife but don't want to look like Zsasz from Batman? Use the Shocknife, which looks like a knife, hurts like a knife, but doesn't cut your skin. With up to 7,500 volts but less than 1 milliamp, the Shocknife provides law enforcement and self defense classes real world experience with bladed weapons. The shock is activated but a button on the grip, and has four settings, "LOW", "MED", "HI", and "X". More »

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Motion Sickness Wristwatch

Not a fan of vomiting? Cruise goers (cruisineers?) can now use a wristwatch-like band that dispenses gentle shocks to your arm in order to trick your inner-ear into thinking you're on solid land. More »