Posted on 08/07/2007 6:46:41 AM PDT by RhoTheta
It looks like a big flashlight — but it's really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick.
Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the "LED Incapacitator," according to a DHS online newsletter.
The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it's pointed at.
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“The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it’s pointed at.”
Until you close your eyes.
Ever try to riot with your eyes closed?
(chuckle)
Where can I git me one of these?
This reminds me of how TV is becoming. Shows are using fast edits to make them ‘look’ exiting - switching scenes twice a second. I end up changing channels due to nausea.
Puke ping!!
I’m suspicious that this thing won’t work as advertised.
no cute puke puns?
Nope. All out today.
We are allowing 'gubmint' to come into possession of some pretty incredible items with the expectation that those items will only be used on the bad guys. I sure hope that pans out, way down the road.
xcamel makes it his mission in life to alert people to duplicate posts.
Get a life xcamel.
xcamel, if you don't like duplicate threads, take it up with the mods. Why don't you do something more creative than complain at people? How about suggesting to the mods that they ping the entire active FR list to notify them of the proper procedure for posting threads? It'd be lots easier than checking out threads to find duplicates so's you can nag people about it.
Did it ever occur to you that you're also wasting bandwidth posting duplicate thread notifications, yourself.
I heard some time ago, that certain sound waves have the effect of making people need to relieve themselves. I understood that it was very effective in campus riots. This was a long time ago and I cannot recall where I heard that.
It would be pretty effective, even though messy. It’s awfully hard to resist nature when it calls.
Not a ping.
Some people want to learn, others like you just want to b*tch.
My fav one is the laser that makes you feel like you on are fire.
Super high frequency, but attenuates VERY fast.
It is burning you, but only a faction of the top layer of skin, then dissipates.
Basically feels like you have really bad sunburn that was just SLAPPED.
Once the laser is taken away, the burning feeling goes away immediately.
Wow. It’s easy to imagine this device permanently installed in strategic locations around an airplane, making hijackings practically impossible. It’s easy to imagine it in the hands of the Rapist’s wife, too, once she gets back into the White House.
And your complaining to others about duplicate threadds is called what?
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