Hackers Made a Gun That Can be Fired with a Raised Eyebrow

Hackers Made a Gun That Can be Fired with a Raised Eyebrow

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjked4/hackers-gun-fired-eyebrow-michael-phillips-atmakers

Over the last four years, a small group of assistive technology hackers have been developing a remote-controlled gun that can be fired using just the muscles in the shooter’s forehead. Last week, 37-year old Floridian Michael Phillips put the shooting assistant to the test at a local shooting range and probably became the first person to ever fire a gun with their eyebrow.

Phillips lives with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease that results in the loss of voluntary muscle movement. When he was born, doctors gave Phillips less than a year to live, but nearly four-decades later he’s still crossing items off his ‘Things to Do’ list. Although he describes himself as “ultra-liberal, anti-NRA, anti-all things Trumpian,” Phillips still included a visit to a shooting range to “fire a gun with a switch” on his to-do list.