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" Continuing to strike fear into the hearts of, well, everyone, Taser has released an electrified round that works with any 12-gauge shotgun. The Wireless eXtended Range Electronic Projectile, or XREP, is a fin-stabilized, self-contained round with no wires leading back to the gun and a maximum range of 100 ft. Previous Tasers, such as the C2 civilian model I was hit with a few months ago, are only useful within around 30 ft.  The XREP punctures the target with multiple probes, and then unspools to dangle from the unfortunate belligerent&amp;#039;s body, all the while applying Taser&amp;#039;s infamous rapid-fire electrical pulses. As an added bonus, any helpful passerby trying to yank the XREP out of the target before the 20-second discharge cycle is finished will also get zapped, thanks to a &amp;quot;hand-trap wire&amp;quot; that&amp;#039;s nestled in among the other hanging cables. Taser issued limited XREP details last week, along with news of a Taser-armed robot and what amounts to a Taser landmine, but full specs were released today during the annual Taser tactical conference in Chicago. The company also released demonstration photos and footage (check it out at right), showing an iRobot packbot firing on a shirtless human, and an XREP round being embedded in a test subject. The good news: All of these new products will be restricted to law enforcement and military personnel. The bad news: The mass overtaking of humanity by Taser-toting robots and their shotgun-toting collaborators is only a matter of time. \u2014Erik Sofge See Taser&amp;#039;s footage of their own gadgets in action:  See Associate Editor Erik Sofge get Tasered by a C2 Civilian model below: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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