Talk about an unpleasant death… The WASP Injection Knife shoots a short, quick blast of carbon dioxide about the size of a basketball at 850psi into it’s ‘target”. The blast of gas instantly kills or incapacitates whatever it is you’ve just stabbed (bear, shark,…)

To see the WASP Knife in action, visit their website

This year’s Christmas list is getting long….

IGN has a good write-up

Wasp Knives looks to have recently innovated the most deadly blade yet conceived, and it’s apparently capable of “…dropping some of the largest mammals in a single stab,” without the use of poison. Indeed, the WASP Kife’s deadly sting is in fact nothing but air, albeit 24-grams of air injected at 800-psi into a stab-wound. The end result of the WASP knife’s strike is a basketball-sized volume of freezing gas in the body cavity of its victim, which is apparently pretty deadly.

The company manufacturing the blade suggests a variety of applications, from special-ops style military use to personal defense for those threatened by large animals on land, or underwater. Indeed, from our perspective, the most legitimate use of the WASP knife would be in scuba diving situations in which, as a last-ditch attempt to avert a full shark attack, one could possibly manage to stab the aggressing shark and blast it out of the marine kingdom. Wasp Knives details such a situation, and notes that the freezing effect of the injected gas will prevent a marine creature from bleeding immediately, while the injected air forces the (hopefully dead) creature to the surface. Such an arrangement would indeed be preferable to the “bangsticks” in use today as underwater shark-killing tools, which use a shotgun shell at the end of a long rod to inflict serious, but messy, damage to the creatures, all too often making a potential feeding frenzy a very real one.

Wasp Knives offers the WASP knife with a variety of options in handle materials and finishes. Base price is $379.95 according to the Wasp Knives online-store. A degree of debate is raging as to whether or not the company will actually sell to civilians, but so far as we’re aware, there aren’t any regulations yet in place governing the ability of citizens to own injector knives. The company also makes rather blatant appeals to campers, scuba divers, and general outdoorsmen as to the desirability of the knife on its website, so we’re concluding they’re available to all.

A quick search also shows that many are concerned over other potential uses of the WASP Knife.

I still like it.

From The Daily Mail

Senior police officers have been warned to look out for a new knife which can inject a ball of compressed gas into its victim that instantly freezes internal organs.

The ‘wasp knife’, which can deliver a ball of compressed gas capable of killing its victim at the press of a button, may be heading for Britain, the Metropolitan Police fear.

A needle in the tip of the blade shoots out the frozen ball of gas which instantly balloons to the size of a basketball, freezing organs.

The Metropolitan Police have told colleagues in the West Midlands to be on the lookout for the blade, which is designed to kill sharks and bears.