real life lightsabers

[Eddo36]

Its inventors call it the LED Incapacitator (L-E-D, as in light-emitting diode). Weapons buffs call it a nonlethal weapon. But test subjects who have buckled and reeled from its nauseating strobe call it other names

Edited August 10, 2007 by Eddo36

[Kor Qel Droma]

Because they look like femmy flashlights?

[Walsingham]

This is based on a design actually used in ww2. The problem there was that the flashes reflected off things like gunsmoke and caused mayhem on all sides. It's also unwise to paralyse anyone on your attacking wave who checks what's behind them.

 

"Come on, lads! Who's with me?

 

Yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi"