BR company launches stun gun iPhone case

Yellow Jacket LLC, a Baton Rouge technology startup, has officially launched Yellow Jacket, a patent-pending iPhone 4 and 4S case housing a 650,000-volt stun gun.The case contains its own battery, which provides up to 20 additional hours of charge to the phone. Yellow Jacket was made for iPhone owners — working professionals, frequent travelers or students entering college — as a convenient, reliable and non-lethal form of self-defense, the company said in a press release.The case allows the owner to flip a switch to toggle between charging the phone and having the stun gun in "ready" mode.
Inventor and co-founder Seth Froom, a former U.S. Army military policeman, devised the concept for Yellow Jacket after an armed robbery in 2011. Froom and co-founder Sean Simone partnered with leaders from the stun gun industry."Because of several recent local and national incidents, we feel that more people than ever are paying closer attention to personal safety. We combined a non-lethal form of self-defense with a technology that millions of Americans carry with them at all times," Simone said in the news release.The Yellow Jacket team launched a campaign via the crowdfunding platform about a month ago. So far almost 1,000 units have been ordered, the company said.With location updates as frequent as every 2.5 seconds, the Alpha 100 handheld tracks and trains as many as 20 dogs up to nine miles away, depending on terrain. It features a three-inch, glove-friendly touchscreen display that's easy to view in bright sunlight. The touchscreen allows hunters and trainers to configure their setup to their specific needs, yet it displays only the relevant information necessary to accomplish a task.
Hunters can follow their dogs and buddies on the Dog Tracker Page, which depicts a familiar three-axis compass, with color-coded arrows that indicate the direction and distance of each dog. And whenever a dog trees quarry or goes on point, the Alpha can give an audible or vibration alert. The other primary tracking page is the Map Page. The Alpha is pre-loaded with 100k topo maps, so hunters will always know what sort of geographical features (including ravines, rivers, and roads) are nearby. The Alpha is also compatible with other maps, like BirdsEye Satellite Imagery (sold separately). Users can even set up customized radius or geofence alerts to notify them if their dog has entered or exited a pre-determined area.