You may never again have to stick your finger down your throat after a long night of boozing! According to Wired, Invocon Inc. has a contract with the United States Navy to develop a weapon that shoots an invisible radio frequency that can, among other things, make victims dizzy, disoriented, and nauseous. Wired goes onto quote the U.S. Navy's Small Business Innovative Research Database:

The benefits of such a weapon would be that in areas of extreme risk to Marine Corps personnel, hostiles could be controlled without loss of life. The weapon effect would be helpful in urban combat where rooms could be subjected to the EPIC stimulus and then subdued without further risk to friendlies or hostiles. Similar technology could be applied to law enforcement operations especially in hostage situations where all the people in a room could be incapacitated without damage and subsequently sorted out as to which are the bad guys and which are the good guys.

Perhaps this could be a new technique in sorority hazing. Just sayin'.

[BoingBoing via Wired]

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