The big mediatron had also taken to emitting tremendous flashes of light 
that caused Judge Fang to close his eyes and pinch the bridge of his nose. 
After a few of these, the cine feed went dead. "Another suspect used strobe 
illumination to pick out the locations of the cinestats, then disabled them 
with pulses of laser light—evidently using a device, designed for this 
purpose, that has recently become widespread among the criminal element in the 
L.T."