That guy Halo

News from George - Wednesday, 31 December 2008 @ 12:57pm

With the recent uprising anger towards the legal use of tazers, sparked by recent preventable deaths, you’d think the police would want to shift towards a more convenient form of restraint like using the force, or ninjas. But in a very predictable turn of events authorities have decided to showcase their newest form of public protection, in the line of weaponry.

A giant non lethal weapon.

Or, Spartan Laser.

Proving the element of realism that science fiction does give us, and reversing the physicality of Moore’s Law, these new, big, overly large hi tech (hah) weapons will be hitting the streets in the following years.

The PHaSR, pictured above, is a laser gun. Which unfortunately wont make the same sounds as the Autobot and Decepticon’s guns. Nor will the lasers be conveniently coloured coded purple for bad guys, red for good. The rifle is intended to stun you with a bright laser, while also burning your skin with a inferred laser.

Although that sounds nasty, it would be quite effective.

There will of course be one policemen on standby with a microphone to make everyone aware of the achievements each policeman unlocks.

Going in for his MVP

There is one other weapon however, which will blast out a 6 foot wide microwave beam. Duly named the Active Denial System (ADS) it bares resemblance to a weapon the US Air force has just finished testing on humans subjects.

I’ve thought about trying to explain how that works, but I instead tried to find an explanation someone had already offered

Already a few news sites, and blogs in general are comparing the design of these new weapons to the weapon designs from games. Though mostly Gears of War, the lancer, seems to be appearing there are a few other comparisons flying around.