Feeling entrepreneurial? With jailhouse gadgetry on a roll, the Feds still have an appetite for more. Al Gore last May put out an APB for "the crime-fighting tools of the future," announcing a new federal initiative to put this advanced technology in the hands of crime fighters. And the Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization (www.nttc.edu/oletc.html) has a wish list of 21st-century techno-crimebusters as long as your arm.
Prison sells, if you can build something along the following lines:
- Protective gloves
- Virtual reality simulators
- Personnel tracking and communications devices
- Multichannel surveillance systems
- Miniature robotic surveillance systems
- Low-cost detectors for concealed weapons, drugs, explosives, and contraband
- See-through structure devices
- Crowd- and riot-control devices
- Rear-seat restraint systems
- Intelligent long-range less-than-lethal weapons
- Pickproof handcuffs
- Biometric facial mapping and recognition
