Slashdot has a report that a newly designed directed energy weapons system is going to be deployed in Iraq to quell riots.

The system uses microwaves to cause heat and intense pain to disperse violent crowds. How cool is that?

Would turning up the intensity knob to 'high' and careful aiming get somebody's head to explode like in Scanners?

All you evil overlord wannabees out there should acquire one of these device ASAP. One can envision many applications for world domination here.

- posted by Base10 @ 9:44 PM