EMD Safety Bracelets Will Shock You!

In a recent article published in the Washington Times, it states that the Department of Homeland Security has shown interest in a "safety bracelet" that would act similar to stun guns. In this video, which is from the Lamperd Less Lethal website, shows that these "EMD safety bracelets" would be worn by all passengers and would be given out in place of boarding passes. 

The advantage of these bracelets would be:

• That they would contain the passenger's personal information

• Would have a GPS type device so as to monitor a passenger's whereabouts in the airport
  

• Take place of an airline boarding pass

• Be able to determine whose checked and carry on bag is whose 

The purpose of these bracelets would be to use in case a passenger needed to be subdued mid-flight. One of the airline officials would have a device that could set off the EMD (which stands for Electro-Muscular Disruption). The bracelet then would send electrical pluses to the passenger rendering them immobile for some period of time. How would the device only activate a particular bracelet without setting all of the passenger's bracelets off and would the electrical signal interfere with the functionality of the plane itself? Additionally, what would keep some passengers from cutting off the bracelet? There are a lot of unanswered  questions when it comes to the use of these so called "safety bracelets"