Pokémon inspired US Army to consider seizure gun
 

Pokémon inspired US Army to consider seizure gun

09-27-2012 02:55 AM

In 1998, a secret US Army intelligence analysis suggested a new way to take out enemies: blast them with electromagnetic energy until their brains overload and they start to convulse. Amazingly, it was an idea inspired by a* Pokémon *episode. Application of "electromagnetic pulses" could force neurons to all fire at once, causing a "disruption of voluntary muscle control," reads a description of ...

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