Anyone know when I can buy one of these?

[Jasper]

No reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_Energy_Projectile

[Jasper]

Hah.  Either nobody really knows, or y'all thought I was serious. 

[Elder Iptuous]

although the PIKL sounds interesting, it might be more fun to have a weapon that stuns people by actually launching pickles at them... 


also, on a firearms forum that i go to, there's a running joke about this. There's plenty of looky lous that can't afford a transferable automatic weapon, and are sour grapes about it.  one of them became the but of a joke as he insisted that he had a line on procuring a "phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range", which would not be covered under current firearms laws.... (of course he looked like a goober because this is just a line from the terminator movie)....

[Eater of Clowns]

Looking forward to this being handheld technology so we can see it being used on children and the elderly in 10 years or so.

[Jasper]

Whatta maroon!

Nah, I'm pretty sure that these are being kept in the hands of screaming-eagle-tattooed soldiers for the time being.  Although I think it'd be pretty interesting if these were made illegal, considering they don't kill.  (Supposedly.)

[BluTakDuck]

I'm looking forward to after the handheld version when they make the kids toy/practical joke version which will only be useful for knocking peoples hats off and pushing people off chairs.

[Jasper]

I think it just makes your skin feel like fire by violently disrupting the water near your pain receptors.

[Elder Iptuous]

so i'ts like those MASERs fitted to the HMMV used for active area denial like they busted out at.... um what was it? the WTO protests?

[Jasper]

Yeah, a lot like that but I am not 100% on whether the science behind it is the exact same.

They are effective at 2 KM.  And considering it uses EM waves, there's no need to lead a moving target.

Easy mode. 

[Template]

Sounds like it also pollutes like a motherfucker: it generates deuterium fluoride--gaseous hydrofluoric acid--when it functions.

[Jasper]

Well that just makes me like this shit even more.

[Don Coyote]

Sounds like it also pollutes like a motherfucker: it generates deuterium fluoride--gaseous hydrofluoric acid--when it functions.

Well that just makes me like this shit even more.

I agree.