Remember that 80's movie "Looker"?

[thatguy]

With Albert Finney and Susan Dey... This one:

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Well, the weapon from it is here:

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"Scientific American reports that a newly patented method of non-lethal incapacitation can render an assailant helpless for several minutes by overloading the neural networks connected to the retina with a brief flash of high-intensity light. 'It's the inverse of blindness—the technical term is a loss of contrast sensitivity,' says Todd Eisenberg, the engineer who invented the device. The device consists of a 75-watt lamp, combined with optics that collect and focus the visible light into a targeted beam, which can be aimed like a flashlight to project a controlled beam of white light more than 10 times more intense than an aircraft landing light with a range as far away as 150 feet. Recovery time ranges from 'seconds to 20 minutes,' says Eisenberg. 'It's very analogous to walking from a very bright room into a very dark room.'"

--tg

[El Dingo]

Every time someone reminds me of a movie that played at the Meridian Quad I freak out a little.

I must have seen 'Looker' a hundred times and cannot remember anything about it.