I'm not really afraid of this. I don't mind the government being able to identify me from every little bit of biometrics data. Why should I? It's not that they're considering you a "suspect." What happens if you're killed and they can't identify the body? What if you're kidnapped and they find prints or DNA traces or an image on a security camera that a computer flagged because an alert was out for you? What if you're unconscious and the hospital needs to know what you're allergic to? What could the government do with identifying data that's so bad, anyway, tell everyone how fat you are compared to your height or laugh at your choice of color-changing contact lens??

Might want to post an update - site's been hacked.

Perhaps at Heathrow they're putting shoes through x-ray machines for some reason, but every airport I've been to in the US, they swab them with chemical pads that trap ions, then insert those swabs into a machine that does an assay on the trapped ions to conclude whether or not the shoes contain explosive materials. They'll also do this procedure on a carry-on bag if they're for any reason suspicious.

Hmm...too bad earbuds are so catastrophically bad for hearing, trapping the sound waves in the ear canal and causing too much pressure on the eardrum. But they're so nifty and convenient...

Right, cuz smoking cigarettes doesn't release any CO2 into the atmosphere... :-/

Yet another way for police officers to cause terror and pain to people who haven't done a damn thing wrong.

I can't think of a more fun gift for a kid of a certain age, especially a boy. I would've loved this around the age of 10 or so.