I want one of these. Really.

Hell, I want one bad enough to go back to basic training if Uncle Sugar would promise that I’d get to play with one. I’m glad to see the Army developing something like this. Now our soldiers can screw with the bad guys and all the bleeding heart wimps in Congress won’t feel bad about it.

Calling it an “active denial system” doesn’t change the fact that this thing is the next step on the road to Starfleet. We already have communicators that clip to our belts (cell phones), shuttle craft, and power hungry guys that are willing to screw anything on two legs. Somebody at DARPA is bound to be working on the transporter and tractor beams.

I wonder if the beams can be turned up enough to make men sterile. That would be one way to win the War on Terror, just fry their nuts and keep them from having more little terrorists bastards running around. Imagine being able to shoot the stronger beams through walls and force the bad guys out into the street where it would be easier to shoot them with regular bullets.

I’m betting that the smaller version hits the streets by 2012, with the hand held coming in 2014.