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.

"There's one wavelength that gets everybody," says IOS President Bob Lieberman. "Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it 'the evil color.'"

Phase 1 of the contract — creating a working prototype — has already been completed, and Phase 2 will begin this fall as researchers at Penn State's Institute of Nonlethal Defense Technology put the puke-saber through its paces.

"Phase 3 will be our shrink phase," Lieberman said, admitting that the prototype, 15 inches long with a 4-inch lens, is too large and heavy to be comfortably carried on a belt.

DHS hopes to equip police, Border Patrol agents and National Guardsmen with the barf-beamers by 2010.



Now THIS is a toy I could really use for Christmas this year.... Santa? You there?

:)

...rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting...
:)Any small craft in rough seas will do this already! Now, if we can just get the bad guys on the boat...

I want one!

sweet! now we can put Dhrama thru what he's been putting use thru!

Now what happens when we hold up a mirror to the beam? Does the person shooting it start to puke too? Does a pair of sunglasses help at all?

:lolhit: :lolhit: :lolhit: sweet! now we can put Dhrama thru what he's been putting use thru!:lolhit: :lolhit: :lolhit:

Pretty crazy. I bet there are some people that are crazy that it will have no effect on.

The speed of film (frames in a second) we watch could make you sick. Maybe its harmonics