Daily Archives: July 19, 2012

Gizmodo has reported that new portable scanners, that may be used in U.S. airports and border crossings as early as 2013, will be able to use lasers to check out your molecules. Specifically, the lasers will allow the scanners’ users to know “everything about you from 164 feet away” including whether you have traces of drugs on your clothing and “what you had for breakfast.”

That would be potentially embarrassing if an airport screener asked you: “Aren’t you a little too old to be having Cap’n Crunch, Captain?” But hey, you walked into that one, showing up to the airport in your Captain Morgan uniform. Here’s 3 potentially more embarrassing situations involving this new technology: Read the rest of this entry →