It tells you almost everything you need to know about 1974 that it was the year some poor misguided soul invented the Hijacker Injector: a remote-controlled hypodermic needle designed for installation inside the seat cushions of passenger jets and guaranteed to tranquilize, exterminate, or otherwise inconvenience any hijacker fool enough to mess with an airplane equipped with these babies. It's difficult to say which aspect of the Hijacker Injector is harder to credit: that Americans could ever have been so blissfully unschooled in the ways of airborne terror as to dream up a countermeasure entirely dependent on the terrorist's willingness to remain seated, or that the American government actually issued a patent for the thing. Yet the evidence for this and other preposterous technological propositions stands in plain sight at Ted VanCleave's delectable Totally... More >>>