Bad, Bad Idea: The Anti-Hijacking Safety Bracelet

This from Wired News is something worth your time, be sure to read the comments about the accuracy of aiming of Air Marshalls.

4-18-2008 National:

This is the worst air travel security idea I've heard of in a long time.

A Canadian company called Lamperd Less Lethal is promoting the EMD Safety Bracelet. It's equipped with electro muscular disruption technology, which effectively short-circuits the central nervous system. Zap someone and they'll be completely immobile for several minutes.

The technology isn't new -- cops and security guards have been using it for years in tasers. What's new is the marketing approach. Lamperd is hawking the EMD bracelet as the ideal tool for fighting terrorists intent on taking over an airplane.

And they're doing so with a blatantly exploitive promotional video.

You can watch the five minute video, which has gotten more than 33,000 hits at YouTube, but I'll spare you the trouble by recapping its most egregious claims.

See Wired News for the rest!