That is ridiculous, it looks nothing like it could be a bomb.
Perhaps another possessed, ebil, light-brite... gotta' watch out for those and spend as much on them as possible, true.

Good grief. Now creativity and having fun are a threat to national security.

Where's the fucking Play Doh?

Don't wear your Gumby pin on your next flight, you'll get arrested!

She had the Play Doh in her hand, it wasn't attached to the blinky at all.

At what point do people both here and in Boston gain common sense. If it has flashing lights, then it is not a bomb. Obviously. Only Hollywood bombs have flashing lights or a timer display.

What will you do when organic shirts arrive in airports with LEDs glowing inside the threads? Give your friend a sweatshirt. Then use the remote control to write "Kick Me" on his back. Will you freak out and scream "bomb" when that prank is executed? Yes, such fabrics have already been demonstrated even in the IEEE Spectrum. Clearly we have published bomb making skills since all bombs have flashing lights.

Next time you see a flashing light bulb, yell “bomb”. Next time you see a car with emergency flashers on, then yell “bomb”. That is what they did in Boston. Next time a the street light starts flashing, yell “bomb”.

So what store will flashing bomb sweatshirts be sold in? Will ‘The Gap’ be renamed ‘The Blast Shop’? If it has flashing lights, then it must be a bomb? More likely scenarios. If it is an American Tourister, then it must be a nuclear weapon. Or he must be hiding a toothpaste tube bomb in his Afro? Point an automatic weapon at him! Can you believe how wacky our extremists have us seeing enemies everywhere?

It was flashing lights. Therefore it is the least likely item, anywhere in town, to be a bomb. A more likely bomb would be the airport bar cash register. Why? It looks too normal. A bartender looks too normal. That's what a dangerous bomb and terrorist look like. Get a grip people. The only moron saw flashing lights and then just knew it must be a bomb.

Oh no! That parked car has a blue flashing light on its dashboard! It must be a bomb!

What does a homemade bomb look like?

It was suspicious looking, and the police should have checked it out.

But, it was not a bomb. Less than one minute of looking at it clearly show that it's not a bomb. She never said it was a bomb. The prosecutor is a dufus.

Does anyone know why she wore this in the first place and how much national media attention did this receive?

It was the perfect psychology experiment. Demonstrated is how people fear the unusual rather than what a real bomb looks like - an American Tourister suitcase.

BTW, I have numerous of those white plastic breadboards. One of my first circuits for an EE class were constructed on that same breadboard well over 40 years ago. Nothing that strange about it other than the girl was wearing old technology - long predates the IBM PC.

In college, psychology students had to perform unusual public acts write a paper on public responses. One guy went shopping downtown dressed as a girl - very unacceptable back then. Don't remember what his grade was. Back then, cops did not carry automatic weapons and be told to fear everyone.

I don't know about national media, but supposedly this was a jacket that she had made a long time ago and wore frequently. The story is that she simply grabbed it on her way out the door like every day, and it never occurred to her that a blinking circuitboard might not be as funny off campus.

Her only crime was being such a geek.

In an airport, that's enough.
I know of a former Harley Davidson Dealer who lost his franchise for joking about a bomb, with some of his fellow dealers, in an airport. This was before 9-11.
They have had no sense of humor for quite some time.

A friend of mine got machine guns pulled on him at the airport for having a sheetrock knife, and he was a contrator with a badge.

I believe it... NO sense of humor.

I know, but they still keep on joining Young Republicans anyway.