Theos-Talk Archives (July 2008 Message tt00084)

The Microwave Scream Inside Your Skull 
The U.S. military bankrolled early development of a non-lethal microwave weapon that creates sound inside your head. But in the end, the gadget may be just as likely to wind up in shopping malls as on battlefields, as I report in New Scientist. 
The project is known as MEDUSA – a contrived acronym for Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio. And it should not be confused with the Long Range Acoustic Device and similar gadgets which simply project sound. This one uses the so-called "microwave auditory effect": a beam of microwaves is turned into sound by the interaction with your head. Nobody else can hear it unless they are in the beam as well 
This article is hyper-linked below under the words 'Scream- Brain': 
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Army Yanks 'Voice-To-Skull Devices' Site 
By Sharon Weinberger 
Hypno2s The Army's very strange webpage on "Voice-to-Skull" weapons has been removed. It was strange it was there, and it's even stranger it's gone. If you Google it, you'll see the entry for "Voice-to-Skull device," but, if you click on the website, the link is dead. 
The entry, still available on the Federation of American Scientists' website reads: 
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/army-removes-pa.html#previouspost 


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