Non-Lethal?

Everything around here is lethal.

So, let me see the light:

Torrance firm sees the nonlethal ‘light’
Torrance firm’s police flashlight disorients and provides a nonlethal way to incapacitate subjects.

A newly invented law enforcement tool to combat crime can do more than make suspects throw their arms up in surrender.

It can make them throw up - literally.

Touted as a nonlethal device to subdue suspects or control crowds, the LED Incapacitator looks like a normal flashlight, but packs so much power it can disorient a bad guy and cause temporary blindness.

Before long, it might be hanging from police officers’ belts throughout the land.

“The whole purpose is to be able to create a nonlethal way to hold off perpetrators,” said John Farina, chief executive officer at Intelligent Optical Systems Inc., a Torrance research and development business that invented the device. “It’s a lot less lethal than a .38-caliber revolver.”

The device - using light emitting-diode technology - produces such a dazzling display of blue, green and red lights that those who find themselves in front of its strobe can’t see, may develop a headache or even become physically ill.

Imagine a strobe light in a disco - Department of Homeland Security-style.

“It’s at its base a very, very bright light that flashes at a frequency that, if you keep looking at it, will be extremely uncomfortable for you,” said Bob Lieberman, IOS’s president and chief technology officer.

“If you looked at it a very long time, it can become extremely disorienting. In some cases, it can cause vertigo and possibly nausea,” Lieberman said.

I’ve heard the same thing said about Martini Revolution.