Heat Ray Project
The link and picture above show a recent development in crowd control and dispersing protesters. I found a similar video one or two years ago and just recently stumbled upon this technology again. The idea behind this defensive gun is to send waves towards the human crowd, heating up the liquid inside your skin to a temperature in which the individual becomes extremely uncomfortable and moves out of the way. This technology could be adapted to any case in which dispersion or direction would be required. I feel that it is a safe design because the time in which it would take to cause any possible harm is much greater than the time in which an individual could stay in its direct line.