It's Finally Real: An iPhone Case That Doubles as a Stun Gun

Hoax product is no longer fiction

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If you can dream it, someone can steal it.

That could be the moral of the story of Stun Fone, a fictitious attachment that turned your smartphone into a stun gun, devised a few years back by Los Angeles ad agency and production studio Stun Creative. A video demo of this 90,000-volt fake gadget went viral (the original clip was pulled off YouTube, but a copy is posted below), racked up millions of tweets and won an "experimental and weird" Webby honor.

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