On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Doug Sutherland wrote: > BTW if you want to take your wearable through the x-ray inspection > at the airport, here's a tip. Disassemble the parts and put them > in small static resistant bags, and place them next to a laptop in > your suitcase. All the x-ray will see is a big black void where > the laptop is. They will likely ask you to remove the laptop and > fire it up, but they won't likely look in your bag at the wearable it's funny, but i've worn my wearable to the xray machine, took it off and put it on the conveyor belt with no response from the xray machine operator. other times, they'll ignore the wearable and question me about the palm pilot (my pilot has a nifty kodak digital camera attached.) once, i packed two wearables and they needed to check both of them out (what a a hassle). just recently, i was on the plane before takeoff and the stewardesses were suspicious when they saw me sitting quietly with big sunglasses (covert m1) and a big hippack attached to me with wires hanging out, just twiddling away checking my email. they had the copilot investigate me. now that i've been wearing the sunglasses a while, i've come to some conclusions. when the display is obvious and they can see your eyes, like with the hacked glasstron or original m1, people are curious. when i'm hiding behind the sunglasses and they can't see what i'm looking at, they are suspicious as well as curious. greg priest dorman and i were talking about this yesterday and he hit the nail on the head: there's a certain anti-covertness about being covert. -- Cliff Leong < mailto:> ZeroSpin Inc. < http://zerospin.com/ > -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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