Pain amplifier in Emperor: Battle for Dune
The pain amplifier was a torture device mentioned briefly in both the 1965 novel and 1984 film. It presumably utilized direct nerve induction like the box used by the Bene Gesserit in their test for humanity.
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- "That was how we bent the Imperial Conditioning. You couldn't endure seeing your Bene Gesserit witch grovel in Piter's pain amplifiers. Well, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen always keeps his promises. I told you I'd free her from the agony and permit you to join her. So be it."
- ―The Baron gloating over Wellington Yueh[src]