"One example of the kind of businesses you can expect to find at the Flagship Enterprise Center is Pete Bitar? company. Bitar is working on a device known as a StunStrike, which could be used to protect a large building from invasion and someday to defend US embassies overseas."
"An Anderson company will get national attention this summer when its inventions are featured on The History Channel."
"'Set phasers on stun' is a familiar line to any Star Trek fan. Almost four decades later an Anderson company is bringing science fiction to reality."
"With the flick of a switch, man-made arcs of lightning streamed across the open space inside the DTE Energy building on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard."
"The Stunstrike, or the lightning in the briefcase, and the Photonic Disruptor, a green laser that can temporarily blind a target, already have some military contracts and could eventually tap into a multi-billion dollar market."
"Weapons that can incapacitate crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-like beam of electricity across them are being readied for sale to military and police forces in the US and Europe."
"Since the ammunition is merely light or radio waves, directed-energy weapons are limited only by the supply of electricity. And they don't involve chemicals or projectiles that can be inaccurate, accidentally cause injury or violate international treaties."
"...Can temporarily disable an enemy combatant without using any form of projectile or other means of direct contact."
"Taking home the top award and $10,000 in prize money is Anderson-based Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems (XADS). The company develops non-lethal weapons."
"But this isn't the only technology developed to stop the enemy without lethal force. Stun Strike uses an electrical discharge to shock people."
"Some troops are trying small lasers to temporarily blind opponents in cars or on foot."