New use for illumination: teen repellant

The UK seems to be at the forefront of using technology to control children. I wrote back in 2006 about the 17-kHz-tone emitting teen-repelling Mosquito. The latest innovation? Acne lights.

Writes Rowenna Davis in the Guardian, "This week the third set of ‘acne lights‘ was fitted to Layton Burroughs estate in Nottinghamshire. Their aim? To disperse kids hanging around the neighbourhood by highlighting adolescent skin problems (this really isn’t a joke—the lights are mostly used by dermatologists to get a better look at their patients)."

Davis suggests that the £1750 spent on the lights (which, she says, do seem to work) should have been spent on alternative activities for the teens.