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Shock Bracelet Considered For Airline Passengers, Border Control

Posted By Tim McDowell On July 21, 2008 @ 7:30 am In HLD | No Comments

(InfoWeek, 7/8/08)In order to enhance the security of air travel and to help manage illegal immigration, the Department of Homeland Security has solicited a proposal from a Canadian security company to develop a passenger stun bracelet. Like the pain collars featured in the classic Star Trek episode The Gamesters of Triskelion, Lamperd Less Lethal’s electro-muscular disruption (EMD) bracelet is intended to incapacitate wearers on remote command.

A video at the Lampred Less Lethal Web site explains that the bracelet will obviate the need for a plane ticket and will help make passengers and baggage trackable while traveling. It also explains that the bracelet will provide in-flight security. “By further equipping the bracelet with EMD technology, the bracelets will allow crew members, using radio frequency transmitters, to quickly and effective subdue hijackers,” the video explains. “The electro-muscular disruption signal overrides the attacker’s central nervous system and will render even the most elite and aggressive terrorist completely immobile for several minutes.”

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