Tue, 21 May 2013 18:45:46 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191214#Comment_191214 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191214#Comment_191214 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:12:02 -0700 groundxero

The Incapacitating Flashlight

An LED flashlight makes culprits vomit.

By Prachi Patel
Monday, August 06, 2007

Soon cops' flashlights might not only temporarily blind bad guys: they might also stop them in their tracks by disorienting them and making them nauseatingly sick. When suspects turn away or reel, cops or border-security agents can nab and handcuff them.

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.


LINK TO ARTICLE ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191215#Comment_191215 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191215#Comment_191215 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:14:42 -0700 Rootfireember I'm guessing horrid for epileptics or anyone with migraines. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191224#Comment_191224 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191224#Comment_191224 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:14:59 -0700 mister hex
That said, I want one.

*Did you know TASER is a brand-name/acronym that stands for "Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle?" Read that somewhere. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191225#Comment_191225 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191225#Comment_191225 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:18:19 -0700 stsparky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191228#Comment_191228 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191228#Comment_191228 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:28:46 -0700 groundxero @stsparky

How 'bout the Taser cannon dubbed "The Shockwave"?

Shockwave

By Wilson Rothman
Mon Jul 9 2007

As you can see in the video, the biggest advantage of the Shockwave, meant for military checkpoints, is that you can be a crap shot and still lay out your enemy. Each unit fires six TASER cartridges, fanning out in a nightmarish 20-degree arc of electricity that's bound to hit something. That's what is called "area denial".

LINK TO ARTICLE ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191246#Comment_191246 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191246#Comment_191246 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:56:59 -0700 dkostis
Do you mean “Not quite the Bowel Disrupter…”? Disembowel means something quite different. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191259#Comment_191259 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191259#Comment_191259 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:46:20 -0700 groundxero @dkostis

Good call. Sometimes I type without thinking. Fixed! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191271#Comment_191271 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6895&Focus=191271#Comment_191271 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:32:20 -0700 stsparky
This is enough to frighten away attackers in the event I have to wait for the cops to come from 5 streets away ...

shotgun taser

Longer vid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtHi_0Qc3Ts ]]>