Dragons

StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Scientific American reports that a newly patented method of non-lethal incapacitation can render an assailant helpless for several minutes by overloading the neural networks connected to the retina with a brief flash of high-intensity light. 'It's the inverse of blindness—the technical term is a loss of contrast sensitivity,' says Todd Eisenberg, the engineer who invented the device. The device consists of a 75-watt lamp, combined with optics that collect and focus the visible light into a targeted beam, which can be aimed like a flashlight to project a controlled beam of white light more than 10 times more intense than an aircraft landing light with a range as far away as 150 feet. Recovery time ranges from 'seconds to 20 minutes,' says Eisenberg. 'It's very analogous to walking from a very bright room into a very dark room.'"

Let me get this straight. Shining a bright light in soneone's eyes stuns their vision temporarily. The first guy to walk out from under the trees could have told these scientists this. When I was a kid, I knew this with my first flashlight. What happened to the dazzling lasers? What happened to the black light that would only blind the bad guys?

How many of my tax dollars went to rediscover that light is bright? Bastards.