Homemade Alarm

Any possible hint of movement is quickly detected by the sensors. The machine activates itself right away, and all you can hear is the far away voice that calls the owner's cellular phone and puts us in contact with him through a loudspeaker. The man can neither sea nor hear, but he can talk: he asks who is it, barks and warns. The only thing that he knows is what the various sensors from inside the house tell him. If he does not like what the sensors tell him, all he needs to do is dial a digit on his phone and the Kalashnikov attached to the alarm box goes off.   

Hanif Molavizadeh, a retired Afghani engineer designed and built this system of anti-intruder alarms. In a country with an inefficient, at times even unexistent police force, Molavizadeh's invention expresses both desperation and ingenuousness, creativity and violence. It would make a perfect contemporary art piece, potentially tragic and essentially useless. Instead, it might just become a bestseller in Kabul.