Posts Tagged ‘xray’

xray posts
Airport Security Goes All Total Recall

Airport Security Goes All Total Recall

Continuing today’s completely unintentional theme of movie technologies given flesh (er… or the lack thereof, in this case) is a riff straight outta Total Recall. In an attempt to better identify terrorists and other baddies in airports, theme parks and other public places, the Wright State Research Institute is developing a system that can scan a person’s skeleton on-the-fly for traces of … I dunno, badness? “[Terrorists] can’t disguise their bones,” says research engineer Phani Kidambi, who’s leading the project. “That’s where we thought this technology has some merit.”…

Keep up to date with all the latest content by subscribing to one of our newsletters below. Weekly Digest is sent once a week with the most popular posts in the past 7 days, while the Daily Posts newsletter is sent once a day with all the posts published in the past 24 hours. No spam.

 
SUBMIT A TIP
Have a great bit of news to share with our readers? Use the form below to submit it to our editors. You may submit any tip that you wish anonymously, but if you wish to get a reply from us, be sure to include your email. Thank you.
Message:
Name (optional):
Email (optional):
1 + 4 =