The ID Sniper rifle is an art project, a fictional, hoax weapon devised by artist Jakob S. Boeskov and industrial designer Kristian von Bengtson.
[4] Boeskov created an artistic project, "My Doomsday Weapon", a travelling exhibition of the ID Sniper rifle, in which he humorously describes his "infiltration" of China police.
[7] In the spring of 2004 the news and work of the company reached Washington, DC, in the Homeland Security newsletter published by the Congressional Quarterly Group.
[citation needed] Engadget published a brief comment about the hoax, together with a picture of the "weapon" shortly after the Computerworld article was released.
[8] Nevertheless, on March 7, 2007, Engadget posted further images and news of the "weapon" under the title "ID Sniper Rifle fires GPS tracking chip into unwitting humans"[citation needed] despite having denounced it as a hoax three years before.