Posted on 12/24/2012 11:18:05 AM PST by JOAT
Definitely an interesting, if not controversial, invention for the field of law enforcement, a new set of handcuffs delivers electric shocks like a taser.
Covered in detail on Patent Bolt recently, a patent application for an advanced set of handcuffs was published by the U.S. Patent & Trademark office during late November 2012. Filed by a group called Scottsdale Inventions during late 2010, technology that could potentially go into the handcuff design includes an accelerometer, a location sensing device, a microphone; a camera and a biometric sensor to measure a detainee’s physical state. However, the group has also designed the handcuffs to house electrodes that would deliver an electric shock to a detainee.
SNIP
In addition to the electrodes, the patent details a “substance delivery system” that’s designed to administer anything from medication to irritants. Delivery systems include a “moveable needle” for liquids or a “gas injection system” to deliver a paralytic or sedative. Similar to the data collected regarding incidents of electric shocks, it’s likely that the device will record instances where substances are delivered to detainees.
The handcuffs do include a warning system that would alert the detainee that the delivery of a shock or substance is imminent unless behavior was corrected. The patent outlines a red LED warning light on the device that would turn on in addition to a small speaker that would emit a loud tone before the device is activated.
The patent also details the possibility of using location data to keep the detainee in a specific area or away from another detainee.
Read more at link, also pics.
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“Our benevolent overlords sure love anything related to control!”
But they better darn sure never catch you waterboarding somebody...especially someone in a turban.
Oh, that's all well and good for the new drill thrawls smarty-pants, but what are you gonna do with the old curmudgeons?
Obviously a SOLUTION is needed, and these cuffs can aid with the final solution to 'those people.'
Of course.
Because people sporting towels are not the enemy of this government.
You are.
Ah, but we DO waterboard terrorists. Which is exactly why they’ll be doing it to the rest of us too.
My brother had that album, Zagger and Evans or some such?
Interstate commerce clause.
I don’t think this design will amount to anything. The modern cuff design has stuck in part because it’s very simple to use, and also very durable. When you start adding more moving parts and gadgets, you have more points of failure, and more things can go wrong when you are trying to get these things on an uncooperative person.
Sounds like an inspired and brilliant idea to me.
Agreed.
If your intention is a standard arrest, conventional cuffs are just the ticket.
On the other hand, if you have neutralized a cell of folks that need to be made an example of, parading them around prior to an eventual execution might be beneficial to creating a controllable environment. Nothing like watching your hero contort with Tased energy.
And the 'enemy' (a.k.a. us) can't stage a rescue, because with a push of a button, you can inject your prize with a lethal dose of whatever you like.
Me too, as long as I'm the one holding the control fob.
“The “Bondage” crowd is salivating right now!”
HA! You beat me to it. Well done!
“Running Man”.
go to far and your head blows off.
This won’t fly.
The simple comparison is to the shock belt, which was going to be all the rage some years ago. A belt with handcuffs, so if a defendant misbehaved in court, he could be administered a paralyzing electrical jolt by remote control.
Well, this was all well and good, except there was more than one signalling device. The judge had one, the prosecutor had one, and perhaps the bailiff had one. Trouble was that you couldn’t tell which one of them pushed the button.
And there is just enough sadism in the criminal justice system so that if you were given one of these belts, you were likely to be shocked, at least once. And not necessarily for a good reason.
So it was decided that such belts should not be used.
You mean like a Vorta Termination Implant...
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Termination_implant
Yup, they would love that control over us wouldn't they...
Obviously a SOLUTION is needed, and these cuffs can aid with the final solution to 'those people.'
Oh they will just mandate that any medical procedure for anyone over 50 is to be denied, even if the old geezer pays for it themselves...
Eventually they will lower that age to 30 then have "forced euthanasia"....
Then they can make sure all the young-uns have implants...
Clearly, the people who made this decision lacked a certain 'zest' required for this new era of governance.
Remember, the Constitution is just "da^&ed piece of paper" according to a former president.
So any former notions of you possessing 'rights' are a quaint throwback to a simpler time.
Maybe, but I think they’d find out with that scenario, that anything you give to a prisoner, that prisoner will try to find a way to use for their own purposes. They’ll figure out a way to tamper with them and shock each other or get the drugs out, or something.
“And there is just enough sadism in the criminal justice system so that if you were given one of these belts, you were likely to be shocked, at least once.”
It’s not just the criminal justice system, it’s humanity in general. They did studies with grad students given the power to shock each other, and they all very quickly adapted to using that power sadistically.
Yet, we ignore what we know of human nature and give cops tazers, knowing they’ll be used for torture.
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