Airport Security Checkpoint of the Future

LeMansX5 · #1 08-15-2007, 12:04 PM

GE Security's "Checkpoint of the Future" Lab, set up in San Francisco's International airport until January 2007, shows a system with multiple integrated sensing technologies—biometric identification; explosive trace detection on passengers, shoes and carry-on luggage; and more. Some of the technologies are now in use in U.S. airports and promise faster journey times, improved security, and the ability to keep your shoes and coats on.
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U.S. Airport Security Checkpoints Poised for Evolutionary Leap

motordavid · #2 08-15-2007, 12:10 PM

Pretty cool, LM!
But, the TSA has to get some people besides ex-burger flippers to
run that equipment, lol!

Here's "check-in security" at our local Asheville, NC airport,

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trueX5er · #3 08-15-2007, 12:40 PM

I spent about 20 mins at security at Long Beach Airport yesterday. There was no line at all.

It was at most 5-6 mins at O'Hare. (ps. go thru the first class line, they don't check!)

Thunder22 · #4 08-15-2007, 01:26 PM

I zipped through jfk and sfo in the last 10 days, no problems....

R8DX5 · #5 08-15-2007, 02:34 PM

You mean soon I wouldn't have to remove my flip flops for TSA to check for a bomb?

cmyX6go · #6 08-15-2007, 03:01 PM

I went through the explosives detection thing in Tampa a few months back. A TSA guy saw me looking at it and asked me if I wanted to try it. They really weren't sending anyone through it. I guess I looked curious. I had no idea what it was.

Breezed right through security at Newark Sunday.

trueX5er · #7 08-15-2007, 03:06 PM

At the CN tower in Toronto Ontario, they have a thing you stand in that blasts air at you. It's fun.