Our overlords really DO want to make us puke...

[Neecy]

The Homeland Security Department is aiming to arm federal agents with a light-saber -type weapon that emits a dazzling strobe capable of subduing criminals, terrorists and even unruly airline passengers.

The device works by temporarily blinding and disorienting a person, says Bob Lieberman, president of Intelligent Optical. Once aimed at someone's eyes, a series of light pulses and colors can be triggered and the subject's eyes can't adjust quickly enough to see.

"It's like someone shooting off a flashbulb in your face every few seconds," Lieberman says. "Because of the wavelengths and frequencies we use, there are psychophysical effects - a real disorientation. The reaction can range through vertigo to nausea."

That's why The Register, an irreverent online publication that covers the information technology industry, dubbed it the "puke-ray."

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/feds-consider-light-saber-weapon/20070808084809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

[pepperbear]

1. "sick sticks" from the movie MINORITY REPORT come to mind n/t

[aquart]

2. Be honest, this is for use with American protestors.

It always was.

[Neecy]

3. bingo