Shrink Ray

In the "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" franchise the shrink ray is a technology which is capable of reducing the size of matter. This is characterized in both the trilogy and TV series as producing a blue laser beam.

History
The HISTK shrink ray was first introduced in the movie "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids." Inventor Wayne Szalinski was unable to convince a symposium of scientists that his machine would work. It is later revealed that his children, Amy and Nick, had been shrunk along with the kids next door.

Technical Features
The movie trilogy hints that the reduction from the shrink ray is permanent. However, the HISTK series pilot reveals that a time limit can be placed on reduction. In "Honey, We've Been Swallowed By Grandpa"(1st episode), Wayne shrinks all the house furniture for the family was moving a distance of three hours away. Yet, he sets the shrink effect timer on the furniture for three hours, and gets stuck in traffic, and has to race against time before the box of furniture re-enlarges. In "Honey, I'm Haunted" the shrink ray's power core disrupts a ghost's structure, eventually destorying the ghost. In this episode, Wayne's body is taken over by a ghost, and Nick (who had use one of Wayne's inventions to improve his eye sight, causing him to see ghosts) goes to get another ghost to fight the ghost that's in his dad. Near the end of the episode, Wayne and Nick use the shrink ray to destory the evil ghost.In "Honey, You Drained My Brain" Diane modifies the shrink ray to shrink selective parts of an object while leaving the rest of an object unaffected. In "From Honey, with Love" Wayne developes a hand-held version of the shrink ray for a Canadian covert organization.