Catherine Zeta-Jones In Prison. Alarm Triggered By Dexter Research Motion Detector.
Not. Never happened. The motion sensing system depicted in the movie failed to stop the intruder.
On a quiet night, when no responsibilities intrude on your personal time, there are few movies more entertaining to see again than the 1999 release of Entrapment, starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
He is a master thief. She is the investigator bent on catching him by posing as an accomplice. The target: a room crisscrossed by lasers protecting a prize of impossible value. He trains her to writhe like a serpent, working her way over and under the intersecting beams to reach the query without setting off the alarms. It’s must-see entertainment, as the preview shows.
Inventive Hollywood minds concocting elaborate security systems are nothing new. Who can forget the pressure sensitive stones in Indiana Jones, Raider of the Lost Ark, which loose a flight of poison tipped arrows and a giant rolling stone to chase a desperate and fleeing Harrison Ford?
Fact is, had Catherine Zeta-Jones, in any guise and comporting with any elusive movement, set a single foot into a room guarded by an ST60 detector, she would be busted. Harrison Ford would be captured or crushed, depending on the writer’s imagination, with no possibilities of escape.
The ST60 is impossibly small, yet sophisticated. It’s an infrared thermopile detector about the size of a plump golden raisin. Highly affordable, it draws no power and can sit and wait inert for decades. Its internal materials do not oxidize or corrode. And yet it never sleeps.
Stick a limb into the security zone and the system immediately powers whatever intruder protocol you have in place—closing security doors, running security guards, knock out gas, even poison-tipped arrows if you have a thing for Aztec tradition and a risky disregard for your attorney’s advice. “Catherine Zeta-Jones, you have the right to remain silent.”
I, for one, would volunteer to be the arresting officer.
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