INVENTION AWARDS A Shocking New Weapon

From PopSci.com:

A muscle-numbing magic wand protects cops and citizens, Jedi-style. I'm in a dark garage in the desolate woods of a small mountain town, and Fred Pearson is about to send 50,000 volts of electricity through me. To stop him, I dodge the sparking claw of electrodes at the tip of his yard-long rod and grab hold of the device, hoping to take it away from him. A shock surges through my hand, leaving me weak and trembling from fingertips to elbow. "You asked for it," Pearson says. He's right. I'm playing guinea pig for a prototype of the Tennessee inventor's Stunstick Neuroscrambler, a new nonlethal weapon that causes enough pain to make any mugger reconsider his career choice.

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