Let the terrorists learn a lesson: Better hide the circuitry under the garment, least you be suspect!
While I believe that this is sarcasm, based on your subsequent posts, given the abject stupidity of most posts on this thread, I have to point out that terrorists have demonstrated the world over that they learned this lesson back before Cassius and Brutus plotted the assassination of Caesar.
I would add that my dog knows this lesson, lest anyone think we are giving away a vital national secret.
Seriously, Airports have become land mines for all sorts of folk who exhibit harmless idiosyncrasies in other environs. Indeed, it seems that it is open season on anybody stepping out of line in these places. Or even having something or acting in a way some person might be suspicious of.
Star was wearing this gadget around MIT, perhaps many students had similar silly (or perhaps trend setting) fashion inventions. I guess the MIT security guards were more sanguine. How did the LED sneaker get its start? After the shoe bomber, one might think better of wearing such a thing.
Anyway, I'm with you. Paranoia is spreading through this country.