To quote the site: it is a horrible device nonetheless, and you are forced to wonder what the world has come to when human ingenuity is pressed into service to make a thing like this.

But it is, on one level, just a natural follow-up to a long and bloody list of other 'ingenious' devices such as cudgels, arrows, swords, bullets, bombs, landmines, gunships, doodlebugs, mustard gas, stun guns, CS gas, missiles, germ warfare etc.

On the plus side (???) is the fact that it doesn't kill or maim - unlike other 'advanced' miltary inventions.

So my thoughts are divided.

The pacifist in me loathes and detests all weapons and that includes weapons of pain as much as weapons of death.

The dreamer in me hopes that one day all hmankind will actually start being human and kind and do away with all aggression and weaponry.

The realist in me says "Fat chance of that happening. Were I a despot, I'd probably order three of these ". And there are probably governments around the world looking more closely at this device as we sit here and discuss its evilness.

On balancce though I still heartily agree with the quote from the site itself....

It IS a horrible device.

What the world has come to when human ingenuity is pressed into service to make a thing like this?

I would love for the talented people and the vast resources that were used to create this vile weapon to have been put to use elsewhere. Developing better medical equipment for example?

For God's sake liberals, stop thinking it's better for the good guys to get killed all the time.

Land mines and cluster bombs kill innocent lives if not cleared up properly, BUT, they are designed to kill the enemy. They keep our lads and lasses alive.

This is so much more humane than putting a bullet in someone. What the hell is the problem?

In a world where children are being given bombs to carry into markets and mosques, soon we'll only be allowed to tell them off. But don't swear at them, it might be a breach of their human rights!

I won't try to improve on the point put forward by P-kasso but there is another aspect to this. Everyone is talking about it as a method of controlling violent mobs but what if it is used as a weapon of torture? Totally invisible effects but unbearable!!
Unfortunately it cannot now be uninvented. I despair at the inhumanity in mankind that can put their ingenuity to thinking up things like this!!

Less to do with warfare, more supression of the masses! If this were developed by, and in the hands of "objectionable" regiems, I can just hear the screams of indignation...

It's as inhumane, as any other weapon and there is NO just cause for their usage.

Live by the sword and there can be, but one outcome!

I think it's a great idea. I don't commit crimes, so am not worried personally.

A weapon of potential torture, developed by the nation of extrodinary rendition, Guantanamo bay and illegal wars (acts of terrorisim). The nation which tested (and murdered) its own troops for the skae of establihing the effects of nuclear bombs?

I am extremely unhappy to see this. I have little faith that it will only be used as the last rtesort before the use of more harmful weapons. I have also seerious questions regarding the supposed sfety of this device.

Any government/ regime which wished to stifle legitimate dissent would want to have this in its arsenal.

Worse still to equip any nation with an instrument of tourture which leaves no mark (and therefore evidence)