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Are Wii Balance Boards the Future of Airport Security?
Wii Airport SecurityWay to suck the fun out of WiiCNNResearchers use fun game controllers as part of $20 million effort to screen airport passengers Airport screening technology has turned to an...
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Bigger, Better, Faster: The Quake Proof Airport, Floating Freighter and...
Sabiha Gökçen International AirportCourtesy Limak-GMR-Malaysia AirportEvery now and then, we like to gather three things that have gone bigger, better and faster this month. This time we're saluting...
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Bigger, Better, Faster: The Quake Proof Airport, Floating Freighter and...
Sabiha Gökçen International AirportCourtesy Limak-GMR-Malaysia AirportEvery now and then, we like to gather three things that have gone bigger, better and faster this month. This time we're saluting...
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Are Wii Balance Boards the Future of Airport Security?
Wii Airport Security Way to suck the fun out of Wii CNN Airport screening technology has turned to an unusual accessory -- the Nintendo Wii balance board -- to identify fidgety, nervous passengers who...
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Bigger, Better, Faster: The Quake Proof Airport, Floating Freighter and...
Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Courtesy Limak-GMR-Malaysia Airport Every now and then, we like to gather three things that have gone bigger, better and faster this month. This time we're saluting...
View ArticleArchive Gallery: Yesteryear's Airports of the Future
Most of us consider airports an unglamorous, necessary evil. Between the inevitable delays, grumpy travelers, long lines, and lost baggage, we can barely summon the energy to…
View ArticleNew X-Ray Security Scanners Present Radiation Risk, Scientists Say
A group of scientists from the University of California-San Francisco is worried that a new generation of airport security scanners could present a cancer risk, NPR reports. But skeptics say people...
View ArticleGerman Airports Using "Biodetective" Honeybees To Monitor Air Quality
Environmental monitoring has come a long way since the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Now we use bees. Airports in Germany are using honeybees as "biodetectives,"…
View ArticleTSA Scanner Privacy Concerns Could Be Easily Solved With Simple Computer...
A government scientist who helped develop the controversial new naked-body airport scanners says the images could easily be distorted into “grotesque” shapes, much like you would see in a funhouse...
View ArticleNASA Envisions Neighborhood Micro-Airports To Let Travelers Bypass Pesky Streets
Going out of town for the weekend? In the future, highway traffic won’t make you miss your flight — just grab a bus to the air taxi field down the street, then take a pre-flight flight to the airport...
View ArticleDriverless Pod Cars Transport Passengers Around London's Heathrow Airport
Driverless cars are just catching on in this country, but they're already zooming around London's main airport, ferrying passengers from their people-driven cars to the terminal. Twenty-two of these...
View ArticleTSA Begins Rolling Out Less-Invasive "Gingerbread Man" Body Scanners to U.S....
According to Jaunted, the TSA has begun rolling out a new style of body scanner to select airports that will hopefully have the effect of maintaining security while reducing the "random TSA agents in...
View ArticleHow It Works: A Futuristic Fire Truck Puts Out Airplane Fires
Aircraft fires pose unusual challenges for first responders. Extinguishing jet fuel requires thousands of gallons of flame-smothering foam, and the fuel burns so hot (up to…
View ArticleWhy Airports Always Lose Your Bag [Infographic]
You're heading home for the holidays or vacation when--_whoops!_--your bag falls into the clutches of the airline underbelly. What happened? Well, it could've been a lot of things, according to this...
View Article4 New Legless Lizards Discovered In California
You always knew there was something creepy about LAX. Now, a pair of researchers has discovered four new species of legless lizards—technically not snakes—one of which lives…
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Construction Starts On Drone Airport In Nevada
AerodromeDrone Image From AerodromeWhen the new airport in Boulder City, Nevada opens, it will be missing a key component: passengers. Construction just started on the facility, which hopes to attract...
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Airports Turn To Security Contractors To Combat Long Lines
Aviation But are they really just the TSA with bigger lapels? Debate has roiled over whether airports should take advantage of the TSA's Screening Partnership Program (SPP), in which private security...
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