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Next-generation handcuffs deliver electric shocks, drugs to detainees
Digital Trends ^ | 10 December 2012 | Mike Flacy

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.

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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at digitaltrends.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; donutwatch; jbt
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Our benevolent overlords sure love anything related to control!
1 posted on 12/24/2012 11:18:12 AM PST by JOAT
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To: JOAT

The “Bondage” crowd is salivating right now!


2 posted on 12/24/2012 11:21:50 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: JOAT

3 posted on 12/24/2012 11:22:16 AM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: Flick Lives

Yes, and besides Star Trek, I thought of the Arnold flick with the explosive collars if you strayed out of the control area.


4 posted on 12/24/2012 11:24:12 AM PST by JOAT
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
5 posted on 12/24/2012 11:25:56 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: JOAT

6 posted on 12/24/2012 11:30:05 AM PST by stormer
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To: JOAT

Sounds like a law suit to me.


7 posted on 12/24/2012 11:30:39 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks
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To: JOAT
"Waterboarding terrorists is out of the question, but we can do anything we want to ordinary citizens."
8 posted on 12/24/2012 11:31:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism." --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Romans used to cut the tendons behind the knees to keep slaves from ‘running’ away....


9 posted on 12/24/2012 11:31:54 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Flick Lives

You beat me to it!


10 posted on 12/24/2012 11:34:10 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: billorites
The year was 2525.

YouTube: In the Year 2525

11 posted on 12/24/2012 11:36:19 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism." --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Law suits assume you still have ‘rights!’


12 posted on 12/24/2012 11:37:43 AM PST by JOAT
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To: JOAT

Paybacks are a b*tch...


13 posted on 12/24/2012 11:41:11 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Waterboarding terrorists is out of the question, but we can do anything we want to ordinary citizens."

Exactly.

In fact, I think the real target has been us all along.

Playing in the sand box was preparation and training to crack hard, resistant enclaves of the real eventual enemy...patriots.

14 posted on 12/24/2012 11:42:07 AM PST by JOAT
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To: Flick Lives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dnZHea_TI0


15 posted on 12/24/2012 11:42:54 AM PST by GraceG
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To: rockrr
When the time comes, the 'enforcers' of tyranny are going to discover the error of their ways.

True.

16 posted on 12/24/2012 11:44:11 AM PST by JOAT
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There was a syfi story called, “The Ring” about a device
like this, go out of an area, immobilized, attempt to
remove immobilized, etc. The hero was eventually in an
accident that removed his finger and so was free of
the device. Don’t know the author.


17 posted on 12/24/2012 11:46:23 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: JOAT

and exactly where do police get the medical licenses they need to administer drugs? Talk about dangerous and stupid.


18 posted on 12/24/2012 11:46:26 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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When you’re born, they just implant it in your neck
and you’re good to go.


19 posted on 12/24/2012 11:48:39 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: GeronL
Citizen, you fail to recognize the intent of your benevolent overlords.

Additionally, 'dangerous' has been thoroughly discussed by your local panel of Obamacare experts, so be calm.

20 posted on 12/24/2012 11:50:05 AM PST by JOAT
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