My company office is actually inside of an old bank (Seattle). I walk by two vault doors like this all day long. It is pretty cool. Always impresses the guests. The vaults are now our copy rooms. Damn high-tech copiers won't let me copy money though.

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Whoa, this is too bizarre. Just LAST night I'm finishing Requiem for An Assassin by Barry Eisler (yea yea, Tolstoy is next on my list).
This VERY device was used to help rescue a hostage.

From the book: "ADS is the Pentagon's name for a nonlethal millimeter wave energy weapon. It shoots electromagnetic radiation at ninety-five gigahertz. Boils the moisture in the skin, but only to a depth of one sixty-fourth of an inch. So it hurts like hell, but doesn't cause damage."

The only difference is that they had packaged it into a fake camera so it was more portable.