Great new anti-political-protest tech - a light that makes you puke

[Bill]

I'm always interested in the crowd control technology the coming police state is going to be using on american citizens.

Here's another toy from the goons at the eerily-named Homeland Security.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19142/?a=f

"The flashlight, which is being developed for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), uses a range finder to measure the distance to the target's eyes so that it can adjust the energy of the light to a level that won't cause permanent damage. Then it rapidly shoots out pulses of light from an array of ultrabright light emitting diodes (LEDs).

The flashes incapacitate a person in two different ways, says Robert Lieberman, CEO of Intelligent Optical Systems, based in Torrance, CA, which is making the device. The flashes temporarily blind a person, as any bright light would, and the light pulses, which quickly change both in color and duration, also cause what Lieberman calls psychophysical effects. These effects, whose effectiveness depends on the person, range from disorientation to vertigo to nausea, and they wear off in a few minutes. "

[Sammy]

The LED flashlight comes with a few caveats. The person being targeted could easily look away, or he or she might be wearing heavily tinted glasses. And the device would not be useful to, say, a security agent who is chasing a suspected attacker. "It is designed to be used on someone coming at you," Lieberman says. Also, the flashlight's effects are less during the day. But Lieberman notes that security agents will more likely face situations in which they need the device at night.
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And it will probably cost $99.99, a price passed on to taxpayers.
Useless piece of crimefightin' crap. :grumble:

[Kinky Jones]

that heatwave thingy that was billled as "a valuable tool in the war on terror" is gonna come in handy in the states... crowd control is of course our biggest problem in the war on terror :thumbsup:

a vomit light seems like something we would use while we have somebodies eyes held open, it's not torture it's an ab workout :lmao2: