You Will Hurl on Command, No Doubt About It!

We don't need no guns! Why kill somebody with a riffle, when you could starve him to death? That's right, consider the options. Remember the myth of the brown note? It was saying something like this: a particular low frequency note – below 20 Hz – can make you crap your pants. Well, it was proven by the Myth Busters to be false, however this doesn't mean that the US government is giving up so easily. They have just developed what is now called the Puke Ray, or in fancy scientific talk a LED Incapacitator.

It is well known that the US government has been experimenting with non-lethal weapons for some time now, but they seem to have become bored with it and decided to develop something much more interesting. The LED Incapacitator is some kind of personal puke remote control, meaning that it emits a flash of light which will make you spill your guts out on command. How funny is that? You'll be seeing cops around in no time running after criminals with flashlights: "Stop or you'll puke!"

Its design allows it to measure the distance between the light emitter and the subject's eyes. It works by creating a continually changing multi-color light pulse, which will induce an apparent state of illness, ranging from disorientation symptoms such as vertigo to nausea, depending on the person. The device has been developed by the US Department of Homeland Security, in collaboration with a Californian company called Intelligent Optical Systems.

Robert Lieberman and Vladimir Rubtsov, the two leaders of the project, argue that, in fact, there is no need to find a specific light pulse which makes people puke, one wavelength is capable of doing the job, the so-called evil color. For now the study is being redirected towards creating a smaller version of the prototype. The original puke-ray weapon measures 31 centimeters in length and is 10 centimeters wide, giving it the ironic appearance of a bucket. Portability is all that matters now.

However, this doesn't necessarily need to be a priority. For example, DHS plans to create large scale versions of the puke ray to make people hurl when the mob becomes hostile. Countermeasures against the puke ray are pretty simple, all one has to do is simply look away from the light source, or wear heavily tinted glasses. A much more efficient puke ray would probably be an acoustic or radio-frequency puke ray.



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