Sonic Lasers head to flood area for crowd control

[roguevalley]

It just keeps getting better: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68732,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California -- Air-raid sirens, Frank Sinatra songs and Muhammad Ali trash talk blared over the Southern California desert in a demonstration of new acoustic technology for crowd control and disaster communications. In mid-90's morning heat at Edwards Air Force Base, HPV Technologies and American Technology demonstrated prototypes of non-lethal sonic devices for a group of military and law enforcement guests, including representatives of the U.K. Home Office.

Representatives of both companies say that within days, they will ship some units of their respective products to areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, so authorities can use the tools for crowd control, aid distribution and rescue operations.

Costa Mesa, California-based HPV showed off three sizes of its Magnetic Acoustic Device, or MAD, a black square panel composed of multiple speakers. The units on display ranged from about 4 to 10 feet across. The device uses magnets approximately 6 inches tall and 9.25 inches wide to convert electrical pulses into sound waves, and is capable of aiming sound precisely for thousands of feet -- like the sonic equivalent of a laser, or spotlight.

Its path and reach can be affected by environmental factors such as nearby flat surfaces, hills, bodies of water or strong bursts of wind. A series of test sounds beamed out by MAD, including gunfire, music and instructional commands, were audible and intelligible at distances of up to a mile. When a subject is at close range in MAD's sonic path, and it is set to high volume, the sound can be excruciating.


Let's torture them some more. There are a few left don't you know.

RV, sick in my heart

[Mnemosyne]

1. Torture of victims, hmm, sounds familiar. Bastards. n/t

:cry: :nuke: :grr:

[DemBones DemBones]

2. I thought they used this to get people to surrender,

a la Poppy Bush's great capture of his old pal Noriega in Panama. . . Who needs capturing in NOLA???

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Great, let's make people who are up to their necks in water double over

in pain. That'll show 'em who's boss.


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[dsc]

4. doesn't the l in laser stand for light?

If so how can we have sonic lasers?