..yeah?..I could totally see one mounted on my roof...in case of other citizens, too.

shrink it down, put it in a box, and...

Paul slowly put his hand into the box. He first felt a sense of cold as the blackness closed around his hand, then slick metal against his fingers and a prickling as though his hand were asleep.

"What's in the box?"

"Pain." He felt increased tingling in his hand, pressed his lips tightly together. How could this be a test? he wondered. The tingling became an itch... The itch became the faintest burning... It mounted slowly: heat upon heat upon heat... . The burning! The burning! He thought he could feel skin curling black on that agonized hand, the flesh crisping and dropping away until only charred bones remained.

It stopped! As though a switch had been turned off, the pain stopped... "Take your hand from the box, young human, and look at it." He fought down an aching shiver, stared at the lightless void where his hand seemed to remain of its own volition. Memory of pain inhibited every movement. Reason told him he would withdraw a blackened stump from that box. "Do it!" she snapped. He jerked his hand from the box, stared at it astonished. Not a mark. No sign of agony on the flesh. He held up the hand, turned it, flexed the fingers. "Pain by nerve induction," she said. "Can't go around maiming potential humans. There're those who'd give a pretty for the secret of this box, though."

This device is an absolutely amazing tool. It can save lives where they would have otherwise been endangered. With the ability to induce pain in the skin of an aggressor from a distance, a potentially lethal situation can be diffused in a matter of seconds. Like the video showed, they had all they could do just to hold onto their weapons when the ADS was activated.

As useful a tool as this seems, it doesn't change the fact that its a powerful "crowd control" device. That's what gives me the heebie-jeebies.

This would make for awesome game shows!