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Walls and bars are not enough, said the report. They must be augmented by such modern escape foilers as "electronic proximity detectors" installed atop prison walls and "Geophone Vibration detectors" buried outside to pick up the first errant footfall. Another gadget that appealed to the committee would virtually turn every cell into a weighing machine rigged to set off an alarm when a prisoner's poundage is missing...
...interrogation, better scientific crime detection seems an absolute necessity-all of which encourages makers of polygraphs, which cost anywhere from $675 to $2,650. Polygraph theorists maintain that lying causes physical reactions detectable by a trained polygrapher. While he asks questions, ranging from the pertinent to the impertinent, the gadget graphically records the subject's pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and perspiration flow. The obvious weakness is not the machine but the man who interprets it. One study found that a good polygrapher is wrong three out of ten times. But no one really knows. A bad polygrapher can easily...
Connecticut's top court recently went even further by ruling that all judges in that state can take "judicial notice" of the principle of radar, meaning that they can assume that the gadget works as claimed when properly set up and operated. A motorist caught speeding in Connecticut by radar has little chance of acquittal. The odds are that motorists in Florida and elsewhere may eventually have no better legal luck with aerial surveillance...
...populous or heavily garrisoned zones. Rescues are effected by a combination of coordination, technology and guts. Each airman is equipped with a $2,400 survival kit containing, among other things, 400 ft. of nylon rope, a tracer pistol, flares, food, water, a raft and a desalting kit. The key gadget is a small mercury-battery radio that is both a voice transceiver and a beeper providing a radio fix for search and rescue planes to home...
...processes like vulcanizing). The two batches, cooled to freezing and stirred together, result in a solution that contains LSD. The trick is to extract the LSD from the solution. This can be done with the help of chloroform, benzine, a vacuum evaporator or steam bath, and a glass gadget known as a chromatographic column (available in any chemistry supply shop...