LED INCAPACITATOR:Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up

It looks like a big flashlight-but it's really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick.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.
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