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Ordinary cuff just wo n’t do if you ’re Batman strain to restrain a supervillain such as Bane or Killer Croc . Such villain only live in the comic book worldly concern of superheroes , but that has not block a California inventor from file a patent on handcuffs that can either scandalize or tranquillize uncooperative prisoners .

The patent of invention filing musical theme goes far beyond a crude punishment gimmick , according toPatentbolt . The cuff is envisioned as just one part of a panoptic prisoner - monitor system that could intelligently provide electric shocks if a prisoner weave outside a qualified field — or even inject the captive with a downer or paralytical .

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The alternative design for a handcuff capable of applying electric shocks.

Such cuff could also supervise the electrical activity of a prisoner ’s heart and fend off apply a shock if the reading was in the risk geographical zone . The same system might even summon medical assist for the prisoner if it detects wellness issues ground on the aesculapian monitoring .

The U.S. Patent app 20120298119 was file by Scottsdale Inventions , LLC of Paradise Valley , Arizona on Oct. 29 , 2010 . There ’s no Good Book yet on its chances of getting approval from the U.S. Patent Office , let alone whether it would ever become an actual product .

But the estimation of remotely monitoring and punishing prisoner may represent a herald of future prison surveillance arrangement anyway . After all , South Korea’srobot prison guardshave already arrive .

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