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Video: Corridor of Death

Troubled lightning-gun makers Ionatron may score high on Sharon Weinberger’s Stupid Weapons Index but they can at least show off one working device, a short-range version of their technology called the Portal Denial System. According to a 2004 Press Release : The system is designed to be installed as a corridor or passageway denial system […]

Troubled lightning-gun makers Ionatron may score high on Sharon Weinberger’s Stupid Weapons Index but they can at least show off one working device, a short-range version of their technology called the Portal Denial System.

According to a 2004 Press Release :

The system is designed to be installed as a corridor or passageway denial system …The system is designed to stop intruders in a passageway or at a vehicle check point, with a lethal or non-lethal electrical discharge.

As the video shows, in operation it not only looks good (especially when they turn the lights off) it even sounds good. DANGER ROOM readers may judge for themselves how practical it is for stopping would-be intruders.

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