New Scanners and Conveyors Could Make Airline Security Faster and Safer
The next generation of technology may soon replace X-ray machines at airports and improve detection of weapons and explosives.
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The plastic explosive was molded into a thin sheet and hidden inside a laptop, the kind of hard-to-detect bomb that keeps airport security chiefs awake at night.
Terrorist devices such as this are the reason fliers have to remove laptops from carry-on bags at security checkpoints before boarding airplanes. But at a lab in an industrial park outside Boston, a new generation scanner spotted the mock “bomb” hidden in a suitcase within seconds, alerting test screeners by turning its image magenta on a computer.