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DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS Imagine a cross between a microwave oven and a Star Trek phaser: a tight, focused beam of energy that flash-heats its target from a distance. Directed energy beams do not burn flesh, but they do create an unbearably painful burning sensation. The Air Force Research Laboratory has already spent $40 million on a humvee-mounted directed-energy weapon. Expect to see it in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS Imagine a cross between a microwave oven and a Star Trek phaser: a tight, focused beam of energy that flash-heats its target from a distance. Directed energy beams do not burn flesh, but they do create an unbearably painful burning sensation. The Air Force Research Laboratory has already spent $40 million on a humvee-mounted directed-energy weapon. Expect to see it in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

Looking like a cross between a phaser from Star Trek and a remote control from Wal-Mart, the input devices allow students to instantly "beam" their answers to a central terminal by pressing a corresponding numerical button. The terminal would then compile the answers and create final distribution statistics for how the class fared on each question...

Author: By Robin S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Clicker Meets Quarks: New Technology Revolutionizes Physics 1b | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

...enough of William Shatner's priceline.com commercial? Surf for it with the Star Trek phaser remote (original series, natch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kitschwatch | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

Then there was the film's controversial ending. As originally shot, Captain Kirk was killed by a phaser in the back. But test audiences were reportedly dissatisfied, and the scene was reshot just weeks before the film opened. Kirk now has a more action-packed, though considerably lower-tech demise; Trek fans are already grumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Trekking Onward | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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