Any websites on strobe lights that can confuse, daze, stun attackers?
I noticed that the multiple strobe flashes (redeye reduction flash)
seems to quiet down unruly kids. Also, there is a company that is/has
developed a security flashlight that is said to "daze" or "slow down"
potential assailants.
Any info on this product/subject?
If this isn't the right forum for this topic, sorry, and kindly point
me to the right board. Thx!
G.Ross - 14 Apr 2005 14:40 GMT
> Any websites on strobe lights that can confuse, daze, stun attackers?
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> If this isn't the right forum for this topic, sorry, and kindly point
> me to the right board. Thx!
Red Eye reduction usually only fires One pre-flash flash to cause the
retina? to close before the Regular Flash fires to take the picture. They
don't? fire multiple times. Kids probably react, if they do, as they're
'strange' to what they're used to seeing, or they might recognize them as
happening ahead of someone taking their picture.
With respect to seizures, since you're already on google, try
Photosensitivity topics. Some types of seizures are more prone to
triggers from flashing lights than others. I used to be sensitive, but
don't even feel irritation now with most lights or screens with poor refresh
rates.
WRT the 'security light' to stun and daze, the only people stunned or
dazed are the ones who send him their Mastercard Number -- check
www.quackwatch.com --There's *likely an article somewhere on them. Stick
with the Light Sabre :-< . These are likely the same sites that sell the
Toll Road, Anti Radar attachments for car visors via Online or *800 phone
number, and by time 'marketplace' (local TV Consumer Affairs Program)
traces their location and shows up with cameras, they've folded up and moved
somewhere else.
*I was assuming you weren't asking about Taser Guns some Police forces now
use to fire an Electric Charge to disable someone. I posted about that a
year ago, and without any replies good or bad, they're now in use in
Toronto, Canada and several U.S.? Cities. I think they're also used in some
countries in Europe. Those send an electric 'scrambler' that 'fibrillates'
muscles long enough for the target to collapse from lack of leg muscle
control. (I think I called my Subject Line, asking if people had
experiences or opinions with the Tasers, "Dazed and Confused" from the Rock
Song, but since there were no replies, I just left the thread to expire.)
G./
gorf - 15 Apr 2005 23:00 GMT
> Any websites on strobe lights that can confuse, daze, stun attackers?
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> If this isn't the right forum for this topic, sorry, and kindly point
> me to the right board. Thx!
I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that flashing lights
affected everyone, it's just the degree of how much it affects someone
and their threshold for seizures that qualifies them as having epilepsy.
Same thing with alcohol, drugs, stress, sleep deprivation, etc..
From what I can tell, epilepsy isn't really defined that well,
especially if you try to define it without using symptoms.
CyberCafe - 16 Apr 2005 01:54 GMT
>> Any websites on strobe lights that can confuse, daze, stun attackers?
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> what I can tell, epilepsy isn't really defined that well, especially if
> you try to define it without using symptoms.
Interesting comments. Same things I've thought about. A seizure is a
seizure whether it's provoked by those things you mentioned or not. For
people without epilepsy, however, once you remove that offending thing,
the seizures stop (That's a generalization because, of course, some
abuses to the brain could change it permanently). It's like kids with
febrile seizures who are just fine when they are healthy and not running
an elevated temperature. Those kids are not considered to have epilepsy
no matter how many seizures they may have during the course of an
illness. Folks with epilepsy can have seizures in spite of absence of
provocation or removal of the provocating factor (just think of all the
people with epilepsy who have seizures in their sleep). There are
probably a lot of reasons yet unknown as to what is actually provoking
seizures in us folks with epilepsy. I'm talking more about things going
on at a cellular level.
Whoops, wasn't watching the time. Have to get back to work.
Barb
G.Ross - 16 Apr 2005 04:13 GMT
I did a search within my Cable provider and pulled up about 10 locations
with photosensitive seizures as a topic. One was in 1998 Summer issue of
Toronto Ep. Newsletter, most of the rest were too long to 'copy down' (the
http parts) without doing a Google Search. If you haven't already done a
Google http://google.com ? that you're already on or News site ahead of you
(headers below) mentions google groups --> try search on above
'photosensitive seizures' .
One article mentioned above I found is at
http://www.epilepsytoronto.org/eaupdates/vol9-3.html . That was printed
summer of 1998. Some of the other googled sites were more recent, some were
older. Try that one, and see if any are closer to what you were looking
for (below). I think that article has an option on it to generate a
Printable Version if you want a text only version.
For people who are Already light sensitive (like me), an Erratic Neon
Tube that's burning out, will produce an Aura strong enough that I'll have
to leave the store or shopping centre where it's happening. Most times I
don't even have time to find someone to tell about the effects it was having
on me, before I left the area. Those are almost the *only things (other
than Lemon Cleaners) that bring on a **quick Aura effect still in me.
I still don't know if the device below would 'disable me', *or would
bring on one of my more Violent Temporal seizures, (I had in 1993-5) where
it might take 2-3 people to hold me down. G./
> Any websites on strobe lights that can confuse, daze, stun attackers?
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> If this isn't the right forum for this topic, sorry, and kindly point
> me to the right board. Thx!