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Phasers. lightsabres & blasters

And now the LED Incapacitator that makes you barf!

"A flashlight designed to make you nauseatingly ill? What fiendish minds would invent such a tool? Under a multiphase contract from the S&T Directorate’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Office, with technical direction from S&T program manager Gerald Kirwin, the two physicists are refining an ultra-bright, multicolored, pulsing “lightsaber” that’s more disorienting, dazzling, and dizzying—though a tad less dangerous—than disco. It’s enough to make you sick. And that, Lieberman says, is not always a bad thing. “There’s one wavelength that gets everybody,” says Lieberman. “Vlad calls it the evil color.”

I would surmise that Martha Stewart would be especially susceptable to the wrong color.

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