Following the violent gang-rape of a New Delhi woman last year that made international headlines, engineering students in India have created anti-rape underwear that they say will prevent sexual assault.
Called Society Harnessing Equipment, or SHE, the device will deliver up to 82 electric shocks of 3,800 kV to an attacker, according to The Times of India. To prevent the wearer from being shocked, SHE's inner side is "insulated with a polymer," according to creators Niladri Basu, Manisha Mohan and Rimpi Tripathy, students at SRM University, Chennai.
The device is also equipped with GPS that can deliver alerts to police and the victim's parents.
"Lawmakers take ages to come up with just laws and even after that, women are unsafe," said Mohan and Tripathy. "Hence, we have initiated the idea of self-defense, which protects the women from domestic, social and workplace harassment."
They added that they plan to incorporate Bluetooth into SHE, so "stress messages" can be sent instantly.
Aside from expence and the indifference of the police in those areas, there is also the possibility of the GPS being hacked and being used to stalk women.
Basically, sociaty change is much more needed than a gimmick like this to create a false sense of securty. It is the government and community leaders that have to step up, send out the message that such acts are not to be tollerated and that women are, gasp, people.
Why is it we have to create tools to stop rape when we could simply kill all the attackers in a gruesome public display? Watch the statistics plummet when you publicly castrate someone without pain killers.
Hello I would like the finger chopper function installed on my underwear.
What model do you have?
Um I forget what its called, the one where it slaps people who look at me the wrong way.
Oh yeah, model number 975. Okay it'll cost 2,000$ and about 14 bussiness days for delivery.
Swell.
(this s**t be so fun to use, hit on guys, and they get ******** up by my undies lol.)
*crossdresser wears it and it slaps him over and over* WHY IS THIS HAPPENING lol