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October 7 2:42 P.M.
Nervous flyers, beware: a Department of Homeland Security-funded project is investigating whether Wii Fit Balance Boards might be good ways to detect signs of tension or unease in airport security lines.

The next step in the War on Terrorism?
As somewhere over 20 million Wii Fit owners know, the Balance Board can detect your precise balance point, making it a perfect keep-fit tool -- but the Future Attribute Screening Technology project hopes detecting physiological signs -- including rapid shifts in balance -- will help identify passengers who may have hostile intentions.
"Researchers took a Wii balance board...and altered it to show how someone's weight shifts. Studies are now under way to determine whether there is a level of fidgeting that would suggest the need for secondary screening," CNN said.
The Balance Board is just one of a suite of sensors the Boston-based project is trialing; others include eye trackers and devices that record respiratory and heart rates. Researchers say their goal is to have a system ready for field tests in 2011.

This is one of those, "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???" moments. I get up in the morning, grab my cup of coffee, check my emails and the news page. Why do I continue to do this when almost daily, something like this pops off the screen and screams, "We are a country of morons and sheep!!!!". I know, it is so that I can gather material for this.....

Is there a focus group somewhere who actually thought this would be a good idea? Apparently there must be. It begs the question, who the hell are these people? I would like to meet them, although I have a sneaking suspicion that I already have. This group MUST consist of a group of people who are SO out of touch with reality that it boggles the mind of the average person. How would you like to be a fly on the wall in THAT brain storming session? I can just see it now. There they sit, a bunch of reality flunkies trying to justify their pathetic existance and hide the stunning reality that they are utterly and completely in the dark about anything that even remotely touches upon practical application and common sense. I know, that was a run-on sentence. The idea is so idiotic, that I don't feel the need to put much effort into the retort. Imagine what that room must have looked like. There, gathered around a bunch of folding office tables covered with a plethora of bagels and styrofoam cups, are the representatives of "the good idea" people. There is a big screen pulled down from the ceiling, and a WII game console on the table. At each of their seats is a WII Fit balance board. HOW THE FUCK did they make the connection from that piece of junk to "airport security"??? Maybe they were all distracted by the blue fireflies in the room. Those, of course are not fireflies, but the blinking blue tooth in each of their ears. Something tells me that they aren't the best multi-taskers.

Whose money are they sinking into THIS ridiculous possibility? Who the hell is THAT good of a salesman? I only ask that because I have applied common sense. People fidget. Some people don't like to fly! So, when you have them on your little "device that detects uneasiness", what the hell are they supposed to think? You people are staggeringly STUPID! Who the hell are you? I want just one chance to slap you upside your head, and tell you to STOP capitalizing on the brainwashed fear of the masses just to boost your own financial portfolio. Don't think, for one minute, that I actually believe that some focus group came up with this brain fart. I know who did. The scum-sucking opportunists who feel the need to perpetuate the fear that we are going to be attacked at any moment by the "evil Muslim terrorists". It already takes three hours to get on the fucking plane, and NOW you want to play video games with people, just to see if they are "excessively uneasy"? What the hell will you do, if they are? Hey morons, let me clue you in, you aren't making us safe. You are going to increase the cost of the flight to pay for your stupid shit, and then you are going to make us wait in line for an extra two hours because of it. How is THAT, in any possible way, going to boost your business?

I can't WAIT to see the first person in a wheelchair that has to get up and stand on the balance board. Oh, wait, you aren't going to make them do that? That's right, because terrorists would NEVER think to pose as handicapped to avoid your stupid little trap that you just advertised to the whole world. This idiocy serves ABSOLUTELY no purpose, what so ever. Yet, you idiots will find a way to profit from it. This is incredible. How do you slime balls sleep at night? I don't know who you are, or what your leverage is to pull this crap out of your asses and force it upon people who are too stupid to think for themselves, but I DO know this. If someone wants to blow up some shit with your airplane, they will. I know this because YOU think that the WII Fit balance board is an effective tool in preventing that. But you don't really, do you? You are scum. Your "study" is a fraud, and you deserve a WII Fit board firmly implanted where it just might throw YOUR balance off.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/fit-to-fly-balance-board-tapped-to-detect-shifty-characters-at-airports/1361483