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Hong Kong airport security fooled by these hyper-real silicon masks

Hong Kong airport security fooled by these hyper-real silicon masks

Masks like the one that transformed a Chinese kid into a U.S. grandpa are now available online

Suspicious old folks: the Elder Mask from SPFX Masks is so real.

Hong Kong airport Air Canada
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That Chinese guy who disguised himself as an old white man to slip by Hong Kong airport security and board an Air Canada flight might have ordered his old man mask from SPFX Masks.

This is the stuff that entered popular imagination with the Mission Impossible television series and is used by the CIA and as prosthetics for medical conditions

Now we can order our own so-real-its-creepy mask online. 

Silicon masks from SPFX adhere to facial features such that the mask is able to move with the musculature of the wearer, like a second skin. The mask is attached to a neck flap and some come with silicon gloves to disguise the hands and forearms as well. 

Check out the video above of a demonstration of the Elder Mask from SPFX, which resembles the one that Chinese stowaway was caught with in Canada. Priced at US$689, the mask is aimed at

Hong Kong airport Air Canada
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Halloween revelers and haunted house actors. 

But the passenger who breached Hong Kong airport security on October 29 used his mask to smuggle himself into Canada. 

The Chinese man who appeared to be in his early 20s disguised himself as an elderly Caucasian man, obtained a boarding pass from a U.S. citizen while in transit in Hong Kong, and boarded the Air Canada flight using an Aeroplan card for identification.

Read more details about the case from the confidential alert obtained by CNN.

 

 

After traveling around the world on a fistful of dollars, Zoe returns to Hong Kong, where she grew up, to discover and write about all the inspiring stuff that happens here on a daily basis.

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