Filed under: Cellphones, Misc. Gadgets

Not nearly as intrusive as it first sounds, the Body Orifice defense Scanner (BOSS) is a chair-shaped mobile metal detector that officials are considering installing in every prison in England and Wales. Designed mainly to weed out one of the most popular forms of contraband — cellphones — the new BOSS II is said to be sensitive ample to detect even a loner SIM card being smuggled somewhere inside an individual. So far the two £6,500 ($12,900) chairs that have been used at the Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes since April have helped authorities

seize 21 handsets, with inmates who trigger an wide-awake segregated and swiped down by a metal detector every instance they leave their cells until the metal object has been, um, passed. While that system does humanely do away with uncomfortable cavity searches, those poor souls with a knee replacement, a bit of shrapnel embedded in their hip, or the like seem destined to toil away in solitary confinement for eternity.

[Via SlashGear]

 

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Orginal post by Evan Blass